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Daniel Levy - Chairman

glasgowspur said:
It's a bit blurry and tbh I can't be arsed with it, but is the crux of his argument that our turnover to wages ratio to low?

Surely the reason for that is that we sold/moved on a lot of senior high wage players last window?
You can't replace all those high earners in one swoop, so is it not just timing?
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Yes the whole article is based off the wage to turnover ratio which seems to be the topic of the day lately (used to be net spend, wonder what has changed...) and of course there's a logical explanation behind it.
 
billyiddo said:
Yes the whole article is based off the wage to turnover ratio which seems to be the topic of the day lately (used to be net spend, wonder what has changed...) and of course there's a logical explanation behind it.
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I wonder what our ratio would be this financial year if we finished 4th and had to hand out bonuses to all the players without CL income
 
Baleforce said:
One of his (very few) faults, timing.

Sometimes not soon enough, sometimes too soon to fire managers.
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He’s proven to be pretty poor when it comes to football decisions for a very long time. In an ideal world, Levy would run the business side and someone competent would run the football side with Levy having zero involvement in the hiring/firing process and any other football related decision.
 
Jurgen the German said:
He’s proven to be pretty poor when it comes to football decisions for a very long time. In an ideal world, Levy would run the business side and someone competent would run the football side with Levy having zero involvement in the hiring/firing process and any other football related decision.
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It’s a football business, they are the same thing.
 
Baleforce said:
Every single decision he’s made as chairman is a football decision, it’s a football club.
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You’re missing the point. He has done a brilliant job when it comes to the commercial side, but he has continually hired the wrong managers, fired managers at the wrong time, not understood that you have to back managers even just to stay still let alone move forward. He fired Jose a week before a cup final ffs! I mean who does that?
 
Jurgen the German said:
You’re missing the point. He has done a brilliant job when it comes to the commercial side, but he has continually hired the wrong managers, fired managers at the wrong time, not understood that you have to back managers even just to stay still let alone move forward. He fired Jose a week before a cup final ffs! I mean who does that?
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With respect, I don’t think I’m the one missing the point, it’s not two different entities, it’s not even two sides of the same coin, everything is interlinked.

Football is a complicated system, success isn’t just about what you do, it’s about the competency of others and timing, not to mention the resource differential.

I see logic in every appointment, even the current one, and all managers have been backed as much as the business has been able to afford.
 
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Baleforce said:
With respect, I don’t think I’m the one missing the point, it’s not two different entities, it’s not even two sides of the same coin, everything is interlinked.

Football is a complicated system, success isn’t just about what you do, it’s about the competency of others and timing, not to mention the resource differential.

I see logic in every appointment, even the current one, and all managers have been backed as much as the business has been able to afford.
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He has appointed managers that are not suited to how we operate and there is no consistency in the appointments, I.e. he goes from a defensive minded coach to a counter attacking coach to a gung ho coach, it’s just guesswork. And he compounds the mistake by sacking managers a week before a cup final or 3 days before the transfer window closes which gives the next manager next to no time to identify and sign players.
 
In an ideal world, Levy would run the business side and someone competent would run the football side with Levy having zero involvement in the hiring/firing process and any other football related decision.
In theory this is Scott Munn's role. If he actually exists?????????????? Does anyone know if he is still a Board Director and actually works for Spurs?
 
Jurgen the German said:
He has appointed managers that are not suited to how we operate and there is no consistency in the appointments, I.e. he goes from a defensive minded coach to a counter attacking coach to a gung ho coach, it’s just guesswork. And he compounds the mistake by sacking managers a week before a cup final or 3 days before the transfer window closes which gives the next manager next to no time to identify and sign players.
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Like I say, he has often got the timing wrong, but the managers we have appointed have been logical decisions at the time.
 
lurker of old said:
In an ideal world, Levy would run the business side and someone competent would run the football side with Levy having zero involvement in the hiring/firing process and any other football related decision.
In theory this is Scott Munn's role. If he actually exists?????????????? Does anyone know if he is still a Board Director and actually works for Spurs?
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Why would you think he is not?
 
P.D. said:
Sensible argument but he says we could sign 3 players on £250K a week and still be less spending less than 50% of turnover on wages. The types of players on those wages would be over £200m plus which he doesn't mention at all. We clearly have money to spend but need to consider transfer fees as well.
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Not true. There are typically always free transfers and loan signings available,
 
Jurgen the German said:
With all respect it’s not as binary as that. Everton haven’t been relegated but it’s hard to argue they are a well run club. We have gone backwards as a club since Poch was fired.
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Given where we were when he started, getting more wrong than right would have seen us in regular relegation scraps and eventually relegated. Instead we've had multiple CL seasons and have a brand new stadium. The stadium delays and pandemic seasons obviously had a negative effect, but hard to pin that purely on Levy.
 
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