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Daniel Levy - Chairman

Now I cannot claim to have had any love for our last 3 managers prior to Ange, but there appears to be a pattern:

Mourinho - Currently second in the league in Turkey with Fenebahce
Nuno - Currently third in the Premier League with Forrest
Conte - Currently top of the league in Italy with Napoli

It is amazing what a manger can do with the right backing.

As much as I like talented youngsters how about we buy some more players like Solanke who are an automatic upgrade on the players we already have.
 
Despite all the good he has done there is a fundamental problem problem at Spurs. We have the best stadium and training facilities in the country which was masterminded by the highest paid CEO in the league, we pay the second highest season tickets in Europe and have absolutely nothing to show for it on the pitch.
 
Now I cannot claim to have had any love for our last 3 managers prior to Ange, but there appears to be a pattern:

Mourinho - Currently second in the league in Turkey with Fenebahce
Nuno - Currently third in the Premier League with Forrest
Conte - Currently top of the league in Italy with Napoli

It is amazing what a manger can do with the right backing.

As much as I like talented youngsters how about we buy some more players like Solanke who are an automatic upgrade on the players we already have.
Mourinho - Currently second in the league in Turkey with Fenebahce - Second in a two horse race
Nuno - Currently third in the Premier League with Forrest - Delighted for Nuno but it won't last, unfortunately
Conte - Currently top of the league in Italy with Napoli - A top manager, had a bad year in his personal life and lost the plot in his final season with us

We're not going to totally rebuild the squad, which was needed, with ready made players. We're not going to go out and spend ~60m a player for 10 positions. No team is.
 
found this on reditt - amazing amount of accounting, finance and property talents there.

Chairman​

Daniel Levy graduated from Cambridge University in 1985 with a First Class Honours Degree in Economics and Land Economy. Mr. Levy was appointed to the Board in December 2000 and is currently the longest serving Chairman of any Premier League football club. Mr. Levy is also Managing Director of the ENIC Group of companies, a sports, entertainment and media group, a position he has held since 1995.
Daniel has recently delivered the highly acclaimed new Tottenham Hotspur stadium and is committed to seeing this flagship scheme and associated developments act as a catalyst for the uplift of the wider area of North Tottenham.
Daniel is also actively involved in promoting governing issues related to the Premier League, most recently advocating enhanced financial controls for all owners to ensure the long-term financial stability of clubs.

Operations and Finance Director​

Matthew Collecott is also Group Operations and Finance Director of ENIC having joined the group in 1998. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and worked for Price Waterhouse in Europe and Africa before joining ENIC, overseeing investments across the sports, entertainment and media group, specifically with Slavia Prague, AEK Athens and Vicenza Calcio. He is also Executive Director of a number of private property ventures. He is also a Trustee of the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation.

Executive Director​

Donna-Maria Cullen graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1984 with a double Masters in Politics and English. She has spent over 30 years in management consultancy and corporate affairs. Donna was previously with Lord Bell’s group of companies, Chime plc. She specialised in the field of corporate and financial communications and marketing, having also worked in public affairs. Early major campaigns included the privatisation of BP, Thames Water and AEA Technology. She advised the Club over a period of 14 years prior to joining the Board in 2006. She is also a Trustee of the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation.

Director of Football Administration and Governance​

Rebecca Caplehorn graduated from Loughborough University with a Joint Honours Degree in Physical Education, Sport Science and Mathematics. She subsequently qualified as a Chartered Accountant via the NHS Graduate Management Scheme and has worked in senior finance roles within both tennis and football. Rebecca joined the Club in March 2015, after spending over five years at Queens Park Rangers FC. Rebecca will lead, drive and embed football governance processes, contractual matters and best practice across the Club.

Non-Executive Director​

Jonathan Turner graduated from Oxford University in 1994 with a First Class Honours Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Mr Turner is the co-founder and former President of Qatalyst Partners, a technology-focused investment bank. He has over 24 years of investment banking experience, including at Credit Suisse, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Citibank. Mr Turner has also served as an advisor to the UK Government regarding Technology and Finance.

It's a point I made years ago about our board. When you psychometrically analyse teams you quite often find lots of people of similar types and a team that is not performing greatly because of that.

Where we need to be careful is that having all those similar qualifications may not mean that these folks aren't different types though. It's hard to tell whether they are all just mini Levy's as he designed it that way.
 
Mourinho - Currently second in the league in Turkey with Fenebahce - Second in a two horse race
Nuno - Currently third in the Premier League with Forrest - Delighted for Nuno but it won't last, unfortunately
Conte - Currently top of the league in Italy with Napoli - A top manager, had a bad year in his personal life and lost the plot in his final season with us

We're not going to totally rebuild the squad, which was needed, with ready made players. We're not going to go out and spend ~60m a player for 10 positions. No team is.
I am confused, nobody suggested £60m a player for 10 positions, where did that come from? That is just foolishness.

Alternatively, buying 4 teenagers, Dragusin and Solanke last year was not enough.
 
It's a point I made years ago about our board. When you psychometrically analyse teams you quite often find lots of people of similar types and a team that is not performing greatly because of that.

Where we need to be careful is that having all those similar qualifications may not mean that these folks aren't different types though. It's hard to tell whether they are all just mini Levy's as he designed it that way.
It always interesting applying the HBDI model at companies.
 
I am confused, nobody suggested £60m a player for 10 positions, where did that come from? That is just foolishness.

Alternatively, buying 4 teenagers, Dragusin and Solanke last year was not enough.
Look, further back in this thread (?) I said 'ambition' and 'backing the manager' is a number (£), every year it is a number. Finite.

So if Solanke, Dragusin and the 4 teenagers add up to that number...then that is it. More is not happening.

A discussion around if that was the right strategy, fine. Go for it.
 
Now I cannot claim to have had any love for our last 3 managers prior to Ange, but there appears to be a pattern:

Mourinho - Currently second in the league in Turkey with Fenebahce
Nuno - Currently third in the Premier League with Forrest
Conte - Currently top of the league in Italy with Napoli

It is amazing what a manger can do with the right backing.

As much as I like talented youngsters how about we buy some more players like Solanke who are an automatic upgrade on the players we already have.

We've spent more on players since ange joined than those clubs have since those managers joined them.
 
Now I cannot claim to have had any love for our last 3 managers prior to Ange, but there appears to be a pattern:

Mourinho - Currently second in the league in Turkey with Fenebahce
Nuno - Currently third in the Premier League with Forrest
Conte - Currently top of the league in Italy with Napoli

It is amazing what a manger can do with the right backing.

As much as I like talented youngsters how about we buy some more players like Solanke who are an automatic upgrade on the players we already have.
I hope and think that will be more the strategy going forward. We're at that place now where that makes sense.
I am confused, nobody suggested £60m a player for 10 positions, where did that come from? That is just foolishness.

Alternatively, buying 4 teenagers, Dragusin and Solanke last year was not enough.
Spend more money on top of what we did?

Or which of the teenagers would you have liked us not to sign to facilitate another Solanke type deal?
 
I am confused, nobody suggested £60m a player for 10 positions, where did that come from? That is just foolishness.

Alternatively, buying 4 teenagers, Dragusin and Solanke last year was not enough.
We can ditch the 4 teenagers and get 1 maybe 2 decent to good players. That still leaves the squad way short and we're going nowhere with that. Or we can buy 4 teenagers, the top young talent, that are huge prospects and develop a proper squad. Gray is already on course to be a 100m+ player. We would never be able to buy him when he reaches that level. Bergval will more than likely also reach that level.
I hope we stick to this strategy when buying players. In 2-3 years it will start to pay off.
 
We can ditch the 4 teenagers and get 1 maybe 2 decent to good players. That still leaves the squad way short and we're going nowhere with that. Or we can buy 4 teenagers, the top young talent, that are huge prospects and develop a proper squad. Gray is already on course to be a 100m+ player. We would never be able to buy him when he reaches that level. Bergval will more than likely also reach that level.
I hope we stick to this strategy when buying players. In 2-3 years it will start to pay off.
I thought it did appear to be quite a lot of money for Gray when we bought him.

Would I change that decision now. Never in a million years. He's a star.
 
We can ditch the 4 teenagers and get 1 maybe 2 decent to good players. That still leaves the squad way short and we're going nowhere with that. Or we can buy 4 teenagers, the top young talent, that are huge prospects and develop a proper squad. Gray is already on course to be a 100m+ player. We would never be able to buy him when he reaches that level. Bergval will more than likely also reach that level.
I hope we stick to this strategy when buying players. In 2-3 years it will start to pay off.
It's important to get a decent balance.

Can see the argument for skewing a bit more towards the Solanke type deals in the summer that was. But Gray and Bergvall have been too good.

I thought it did appear to be quite a lot of money for Gray when we bought him.

Would I change that decision now. Never in a million years. He's a star.
It was. Which only shows how highly he was rated by the club. Within the "ready made solution" range of money for sure.

Had he been 22, been signed as one of the best players in the Championship, taken a couple of months to settle in and then performing like this maybe he would be thought of more in the Solanke category of signing?

Likewise, would never change that decision.
 
I hope and think that will be more the strategy going forward. We're at that place now where that makes sense.

Spend more money on top of what we did?

Or which of the teenagers would you have liked us not to sign to facilitate another Solanke type deal?
I believe the signings of teenagers should not inhibit us from signing more established players. I thought idea of building the new stadium was to develop an income making machine so as to invest on the pitch. Maybe I got it wrong
 
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