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Daniel Levy - Chairman

DaveT316 said:
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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We still had a greater chance with a man who was a serial winner and often beat much better teams by frustrating them than we did with a guy who had no experience whatsoever. The time to sack him would have been immediately after the final, assuming we had lost.
 
Jose was never the right fit for Spurs, but he was clearly hired because of his track record for winning trophies so to fire him on the eve of a cup final is just odd whatever way you look at it:D

However, it's very easy to look like a know it all on these forums and loudly shout when you call something right, yet go radio silent when you get things wrong which we all do many many times. Levy unfortunately, doesn't have such an opportunity and all in all I'm comfortable with him as chairman....
 
Mikey10 said:
‘Additional investment…’ Hmmm.

I suppose that hotel won’t build itself.
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The hotel will be debt funded like all construction projects. It will also be secured on the build
That’s standard practice and something I did as a job for a period of time
The building work has never affected the clubs ability to spend apart from the brief period at the end of the time at WHL where having cash was needed to help when borrowing (security)
All clubs build things when they can if they know that will bring in money
Chelsea fans didn’t complain when they build the hotels
United wish they built them first before Neville did
 
Jurgen the German said:
We still had a greater chance with a man who was a serial winner and often beat much better teams by frustrating them than we did with a guy who had no experience whatsoever. The time to sack him would have been immediately after the final, assuming we had lost.
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Completely respect this view and those that hold it. I just felt we had no chance with him in charge based on what I felt I’d seen get progressively worse in the weeks leading up to the final.
 
DaveT316 said:
Completely respect this view and those that hold it. I just felt we had no chance with him in charge based on what I felt I’d seen get progressively worse in the weeks leading up to the final.
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I wasn't confident at all. For me, I'd had enough of Jose when we lost 3-1 at home to victims in January. At that point there had been a few performances which suggested all wasn't happy in the camp. Story goes that only 2 players still wanted him in the club by the time he was fired so things had fractured badly (and Kane seems to be one of those two).

All that said, firing him the week of a Cup final was a stupid decision and one of Levy's worst IMO. We had next to no chance of winning the game but Jose stood more chance than Mason. If this was partly a trophy v CL decision as was reported then, as much as I think Levy is a great chairman, that's one mighty big stick to beat him with.
 
DeanoAustin said:
I wasn't confident at all. For me, I'd had enough of Jose when we lost 3-1 at home to victims in January. At that point there had been a few performances which suggested all wasn't happy in the camp. Story goes that only 2 players still wanted him in the club by the time he was fired so things had fractured badly (and Kane seems to be one of those two).

All that said, firing him the week of a Cup final was a stupid decision and one of Levy's worst IMO. We had next to no chance of winning the game but Jose stood more chance than Mason. If this was partly a trophy v CL decision as was reported then, as much as I think Levy is a great chairman, that's one mighty big stick to beat him with.
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Full agree
But strangely it was when we would have won with a decent ref
 
Jurgen the German said:
We still had a greater chance with a man who was a serial winner and often beat much better teams by frustrating them than we did with a guy who had no experience whatsoever. The time to sack him would have been immediately after the final, assuming we had lost.
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I know we disagree about how good or bad a chairman Levy is/ Has been but i do agree with you over Jose, sacking him before the final was a poor decision by Levy for sure.
 
harr1984 said:
Jose was never the right fit for Spurs, but he was clearly hired because of his track record for winning trophies so to fire him on the eve of a cup final is just odd whatever way you look at it:D

However, it's very easy to look like a know it all on these forums and loudly shout when you call something right, yet go radio silent when you get things wrong which we all do many many times. Levy unfortunately, doesn't have such an opportunity and all in all I'm comfortable with him as chairman....
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Yeh, I think Levy has been a force for good for Spurs overall, I don't back all he does and the increase in prices stick bad for me given lack of ongield success BUT that moan aside we are generally around the top table now when we would be once every 10 years or so before. We can't compare ourselves with United, Arsenal and City as rivals and not also acknowledge the progress.

He makes mistake but as i always say if we all added up our opinions and took out he bad ones we all.wouldnt be left with many right decisions between us. The expectation thay Levy shouldn't make mistakes is ridiculous as is the idea that player and managers making bad decisions also filter up. He isn't responsible for the failure to convert 14 odd SF and Finals or whatever that is regardless of who and who want favourites.

As with everything too mamy lazy troupes about stuff that take off but don't stand up to scrutiny.
 
Lilbaz said:
You wanted graham to stay?
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I know you didn't ask me, but, the timing was wrong, Graham's entire reason for existence at that point was to get revenge on them, had he stayed we would have won that game, through simple force of Scottish will.
 
Jurgen the German said:
No but he was a better manager than Hoddle and should have been allowed to manage the semi final.
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Hoddle was brilliant for us in context though. Little or no money and that 3-5-2 early on ws the best football I've seen even to this day for alot less money. Fact he was working under horrendous money and they ran out of gas aside Hoddle was a different kind of coach.

Once Dean Richards got injured and wasn't the same that hurt us massively
 
Mikey10 said:
A very very interesting insider's view via Hugo Lloris...

www.theguardian.com

Hugo Lloris: how the gift of a luxury watch made me realise Spurs would accept second best

In exclusive extracts from his autobiography, the goalkeeper tells of his dismay at a well-meaning gesture by Daniel Levy before 2019 Champions League final
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Very interesting, especially the bit about the documentary. I have always wondered if that affected things at all. The inner sanctum being exposed, Lloris suggests that he thinks it did.
 
Mikey10 said:
A very very interesting insider's view via Hugo Lloris...

www.theguardian.com

Hugo Lloris: how the gift of a luxury watch made me realise Spurs would accept second best

In exclusive extracts from his autobiography, the goalkeeper tells of his dismay at a well-meaning gesture by Daniel Levy before 2019 Champions League final
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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This is shocking!

We do all have one engraved memory, though. Four days before the final, Daniel Levy called us all together to announce that, with the support of a sponsor, we would each receive a luxury aviator watch from the club. At first, we were excited to see the elegant boxes. Then we opened them and discovered that he’d had the back of each timepiece engraved with the player’s name and ‘Champions League Finalist 2019’. ‘Finalist.’ Who does such a thing at a moment like this? I still haven’t got over it, and I’m not alone. If we’d won, he wouldn’t have asked for the watches back to have ‘Winner’ engraved instead.

I have considerable respect and esteem for the man and all he has done for the club as chairman – I got to know him – but there are things he is simply not sensitive to. As magnificent as the watch is, I have never worn it. I would have preferred there to be nothing on it. With an engraving like that, Levy couldn’t have been surprised if we had been 1–0 down after a couple of minutes: so it was written.
 
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