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Daniel Levy - Chairman

Lilbaz said:
If lewis wanted to put more money in. No evidence he did.
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Levy could’ve diluted his stake without Lewis doing so.

Levy has become extremely rich through his investment in Tottenham. Lewis has turned himself from an extremely rich person to an incredibly rich one, it is a shame that the most important thing for both of them is how much personal wealth they can accumulate.
 
Jurgen the German said:
Sacked managers at the wrong time, hired the wrong managers in the first place, lurched from one style of manager to another without having a consistent plan or style of play, been too slow to act in the transfer market. I’m not sure how people can say he’s the best chairman in the game with only 1 trophy in 20+ years. I realise what we are up against but I don’t see why people need to go to such extremes saying he’s the best in the game, just say he’s one of the best, that’s not an unreasonable opinion to hold.
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Most managers we have hired the majority of the fan base wanted / were excited about and he sacked managers the fans wanted rid of, you are talking like he wasn’t pressured by fans for most of these actions.
 
Yiddo said:
Most managers we have hired the majority of the fan base wanted / were excited about and he sacked managers the fans wanted rid of, you are talking like he wasn’t pressured by fans for most of these actions.
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This comes up all the time. He wasn’t pressured by the fans to sack Redknapp or Poch. Nor was he pressured to sack Jose the week before a cup final and replace him with Ryan friggin Mason. If he gives in to fan pressure that easily when there is barely any call for managers to be sacked then he’s really not as headstrong as he is portrayed to be on here. It actually makes him look quite weak. If serial winners like Jose and Conte can’t win here but win trophies literally everywhere else and the only constant in that time is Levy and a handful of players then what would you put that down to? That’s without even mentioning the long list of players that have gone on to win trophies after they left Spurs.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Levy could’ve diluted his stake without Lewis doing so.

Levy has become extremely rich through his investment in Tottenham. Lewis has turned himself from an extremely rich person to an incredibly rich one, it is a shame that the most important thing for both of them is how much personal wealth they can accumulate.
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Why shouldn't they want to grow their investment? They haven't taken money out of the club. Only put it in.
 
Jurgen the German said:
This comes up all the time. He wasn’t pressured by the fans to sack Redknapp or Poch. Nor was he pressured to sack Jose the week before a cup final and replace him with Ryan friggin Mason. If he gives in to fan pressure that easily when there is barely any call for managers to be sacked then he’s really not as headstrong as he is portrayed to be on here. It actually makes him look quite weak. If serial winners like Jose and Conte can’t win here but win trophies literally everywhere else and the only constant in that time is Levy and a handful of players then what would you put that down to? That’s without even mentioning the long list of players that have gone on to win trophies after they left Spurs.
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He didn't sack redknapp. Lewis did. As for poch we were in relegation form from feb.

But these arguments have been done to death so i'm out.
 
Jurgen the German said:
This comes up all the time. He wasn’t pressured by the fans to sack Redknapp or Poch. Nor was he pressured to sack Jose the week before a cup final and replace him with Ryan friggin Mason. If he gives in to fan pressure that easily when there is barely any call for managers to be sacked then he’s really not as headstrong as he is portrayed to be on here. It actually makes him look quite weak. If serial winners like Jose and Conte can’t win here but win trophies literally everywhere else and the only constant in that time is Levy and a handful of players then what would you put that down to? That’s without even mentioning the long list of players that have gone on to win trophies after they left Spurs.
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If you really think the fans were not turning on Poch and Mourinho then you clearly do not have a good memory. The fans wanted Mourinho out weeks before that cup final, yes the timing wasn't great but the vast majority of the fan base wanted Mourinho gone.

Mourinho and Conte have won trophies with the biggest teams in those leagues so lets not make it out like they worked miracles with a bang average club. We are Tottenham, the 6th biggest club in the prem its harder to win trophy's in this country then anywhere else.
 
Yiddo said:
If you really think the fans were not turning on Poch and Mourinho then you clearly do not have a good memory. The fans wanted Mourinho out weeks before that cup final, yes the timing wasn't great but the vast majority of the fan base wanted Mourinho gone.

Mourinho and Conte have won trophies with the biggest teams in those leagues so lets not make it out like they worked miracles with a bang average club. We are Tottenham, the 6th biggest club in the prem its harder to win trophy's in this country then anywhere else.
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Fans wanted Mou gone
But I don’t remember one wanting him gone before the final
It came cross as daft and a way of keeping the costs down
As it was, we played ok in that final and was robbed by poor officiating
 
Yiddo said:
What has he not done for the football side of things? He has backed every manager with hundreds of millions and thats fact. I don’t see what else he can do without putting us in financial trouble?
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He's probably got a bit more time on his hands now, so hopefully he'll do his UEFA badges
 
Yiddo said:
If you really think the fans were not turning on Poch and Mourinho then you clearly do not have a good memory. The fans wanted Mourinho out weeks before that cup final, yes the timing wasn't great but the vast majority of the fan base wanted Mourinho gone.

Mourinho and Conte have won trophies with the biggest teams in those leagues so lets not make it out like they worked miracles with a bang average club. We are Tottenham, the 6th biggest club in the prem its harder to win trophy's in this country then anywhere else.
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If the fans wanted anyone gone over the last few years it’s Levy judging by the chants at games. People may have wanted Jose to go but not before a cup final. What’s the point of hiring him if you’re going to sack him on the eve of a final? He excels in winning one off games. Again if you’re talking commercially then he’s superb, but I can’t believe we’re still debating his football acumen at this point. The sad thing is I think he could be here another 20 years and we still not win anything and people would still defend him.
 
Jurgen the German said:
If the fans wanted anyone gone over the last few years it’s Levy judging by the chants at games. People may have wanted Jose to go but not before a cup final. What’s the point of hiring him if you’re going to sack him on the eve of a final? He excels in winning one off games. Again if you’re talking commercially then he’s superb, but I can’t believe we’re still debating his football acumen at this point. The sad thing is I think he could be here another 20 years and we still not win anything and people would still defend him.
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It's like banging your head against a wall. Levy doesn't play all these games the players do, we have been in various different finals and semi finals over there years, hardly Levy's fault that we bottled them all.
 
Yiddo said:
It's like banging your head against a wall. Levy doesn't play all these games the players do, we have been in various different finals and semi finals over there years, hardly Levy's fault that we bottled them all.
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He runs the club. It’s his responsibility if the clubs succeeds or fails. You can bet your bottom dollar he’d get a large share of the credit if we won the lot. But he’s not responsible at all when we don’t win things? That’s the definition of having your cake and eating it.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Fans wanted Mou gone
But I don’t remember one wanting him gone before the final
It came cross as daft and a way of keeping the costs down
As it was, we played ok in that final and was robbed by poor officiating
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The cost thing is a total red herring. He wasn’t sacked to save money. He was sacked because, rightly or wrongly, there was a huge difference of opinion over priorities. (League cup v CL qualification).
You can’t sack someone for failing less than a week before they had the chance to do the very opposite of failing, and get away with it - any lawyer would be all over that. Levy wanted focus on the outside chance of CL qualification. Jose wanted to focus on the league cup final. A final that, at the time, pretty much every Spurs fan seemed to believe we would lose, and lose badly.
At the time I was just delighted he was gone as I had no expectation we would beat City anyway. I don’t recall many fans before the sacking thinking we had a chance to win that final.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
The cost thing is a total red herring. He wasn’t sacked to save money. He was sacked because, rightly or wrongly, there was a huge difference of opinion over priorities. (League cup v CL qualification).
You can’t sack someone for failing less than a week before they had the chance to do the very opposite of failing, and get away with it - any lawyer would be all over that. Levy wanted focus on the outside chance of CL qualification. Jose wanted to focus on the league cup final. A final that, at the time, pretty much every Spurs fan seemed to believe we would lose, and lose badly.
At the time I was just delighted he was gone as I had no expectation we would beat City anyway. I don’t recall many fans before the sacking thinking we had a chance to win that final.
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My view, I remember clearly at the time and based on the last few posts seems the minority, was we had NO chance with Mourinho in charge, one off game ‘specialist’ or not. The players had literally stopped playing for him. With Mason, for me, we had a puncher’s chance on the basis that the players were unlikely to be actively hating him at that stage.

So in summary, I wanted Mourinho gone and the timing didn’t bother me one bit.
 
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If an infinite number of monkeys sit in front of an infinite number of computers and randomly push the buttons, they will eventually end up experts at running a football club.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
The cost thing is a total red herring. He wasn’t sacked to save money. He was sacked because, rightly or wrongly, there was a huge difference of opinion over priorities. (League cup v CL qualification).
You can’t sack someone for failing less than a week before they had the chance to do the very opposite of failing, and get away with it - any lawyer would be all over that. Levy wanted focus on the outside chance of CL qualification. Jose wanted to focus on the league cup final. A final that, at the time, pretty much every Spurs fan seemed to believe we would lose, and lose badly.
At the time I was just delighted he was gone as I had no expectation we would beat City anyway. I don’t recall many fans before the sacking thinking we had a chance to win that final.
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We had very little chance with Jose, but we had less than 0 chance with the absolute managerial novice that is Ryan Mason. It was a stupid decision.

I never wanted Jose in the first place I knew it wouldn't work here but the culture of the club doesn't fit his working style but Levy hired him anyway. I then and this is the only time ever that I've advocated for sacking a coach (not Harry, not AVB, not Poch, not Ramos etc etc etc) wanted him gone that December when it was clear it wasn't working but instead we kept him on only to sack him a week before a final.

How anyone can look back and call that decision and good leadership is beyond me. Levy is many things but a good football leader he is not.

His best work is when he puts others in charge of football matters and defers to their expertise.
 
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