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Here's another quote from Lloris in same book
"I have a lot of respect for Daniel. I think he has done amazing work for the club. When I look at the position of Spurs when I arrived, [in 2012] and when I left [this January], it’s a different club."
"Daniel always tried to make the right decision for the club and we were also a bit unlucky. At our best with Mauricio, we had to compete with the Chelsea of Abramovich, the Emirates Marketing Project of Guardiola, the Liverpool of Jürgen Klopp. It was really tough because if the club was ready to invest £50m, the others will invest £100m."
"I really like what I see and I believe that they are going in the right direction. They have a proper football style, a mentality, and I think [Postecoglou] brought exactly what the club needed at this moment – freshness and a new fan expectation. That’s probably why I felt really heavy when we were with José or Antonio. It was a different football style."
I listened to the chapter on Hugo leaving the club today. Hugo talked about Levy telling him to go out with a bang in the last home game of the season in front of the fans. Hugo had to remind him he still had a season left on his contract, he didn't have a new club, and that nobody had actually told him he wasn't allowed to fight for his place (or something like that) with Vicario coming in. Hugo was massively complimentary about our new keeper in that passage of his book as well.
Reading between the fuzzy lines of what Hugo is saying, it supports the fan narrative about Daniel. Lack of people skills, abundance of logical thinking with the club's interest at heart but isn't a people person or isn't so great at lateral thinking in key moments. He treated Hugo like a commodity rather than someone that had given over a decade of his best years to our club as one of our key personalities and leaders. It wasn't a conversation you'd have with a husband, father and loyal servant, and neither was the next year by the sounds of it.
It did make me laugh when Hugo talked about transfer deadline day when he was linked with clubs like Saudi Sportswashing Machine and Lazio to sit on their bench, but was sitting in an Argentinian restaurant having dinner with his family. As a man that thinks for 4 people, he wasn't just going to roll over for the sake of a Spurs P&L. That is especially when the club didn't even tell him about the arrival of Vicario, and the book strongly implies that the information was withheld deliberately.
The book also talks a little about Paratici. Hugo didn't say as much, but Fabio knew that our veteran keeper wasn't up to it 2 years earlier when he signed Gollini. It was implied that Fabio knew we needed a keeper upgrade, and it was Conte who quashed that and re-empowered Hugo including the contract extension.
It really sounds like Spurs should have been more honest with themselves over the keeper situation, and especially Hugo. We could see his superpowers were waining. So could Fabio. Spurs just did the rest in the clumsiest way ever.
Obviously, this football stuff in the book isn't as interesting as expensive watches