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Daniel Levy - Chairman

Diamond Lights said:
have to say the negligence of the board is alarming. as someone who's been anti levy for long, surprised he let it get to this state. Never thought despite my resentment he'd let us get to this point as he knew better. clearly not
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He's doing what the fans want, if he is doing it on purpose then this is a message saying this is what you wanted and look how it is.
 
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I actually think this makes Ange’s position stronger. How can Levy sack him with this much noise around the club? I think he’ll stay on now (and I’m Ange out)
 
Jordinho said:
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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Not necessarily. Getting more decisions wrong than right doesn’t automatically mean that we end up in relegation fights. What I will say is we have been a fairly well run club for the most part of Levy’s reign up to a point. But this is now 5-6 seasons of mostly a downhill trajectory. The most important thing is getting back to being a consistent top 4-6 club. But then after that, the question becomes can Levy take us to the next step? Personally I think it’s time for someone else to take the club forward. And also, you can’t give Levy the credit for turning us into a consistent CL club but then say it’s nothing to do with him because we can’t get over the line. If we go down then he’s partly responsible just like he would be if we won the league. There must be a reason why we hire successful coaches who win silverware everywhere they go except our club.
 
NickTB said:
I actually think this makes Ange’s position stronger. How can Levy sack him with this much noise around the club? I think he’ll stay on now (and I’m Ange out)
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That's what puts Deadweight Dan in a conundrum - his typical approach when under pressure has been to sack the coach and hope that fixes it. But enough people have now seen through that ploy, so he has nowhere to scurry to.

@Bedfordspurs - thanks for confirming mate. Heard these banners were subject to a confiscation attempt by the stewards - did you see that/what's your take?

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DubaiSpur said:
That's what puts Deadweight Dan in a conundrum - his typical approach when under pressure has been to sack the coach and hope that fixes it. But enough people have now seen through that ploy, so he has nowhere to scurry to.

@Bedfordspurs - thanks for confirming mate. Heard these banners were subject to a confiscation attempt by the stewards - did you see that/what's your take?

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How has Levy been greedy?
 
DubaiSpur said:
That's what puts Deadweight Dan in a conundrum - his typical approach when under pressure has been to sack the coach and hope that fixes it. But enough people have now seen through that ploy, so he has nowhere to scurry to.

@Bedfordspurs - thanks for confirming mate. Heard these banners were subject to a confiscation attempt by the stewards - did you see that/what's your take?

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Didn’t see that TBF
I’m in the other corner of that stand
But all that gonna happen is another manager comes in and we go again
Unless someone comes up with £3b he ain’t leaving
 
DubaiSpur said:
That's what puts Deadweight Dan in a conundrum - his typical approach when under pressure has been to sack the coach and hope that fixes it. But enough people have now seen through that ploy, so he has nowhere to scurry to.

@Bedfordspurs - thanks for confirming mate. Heard these banners were subject to a confiscation attempt by the stewards - did you see that/what's your take?

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Didn’t see that either. Banner was up until there was basically no one left in the stadium.
 
Baleforce said:
How has Levy been greedy?
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A few ways mate. Here's one -

www.google.com

Levy's eye-watering Tottenham salary towers over Man Utd and Liverpool chiefs

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is the best-paid club chief in the Premier League.
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"Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy banked more than £6million last season, making him by far the highest-paid club chief in the Premier League. Levy's counterparts at Manchester United and Liverpool - Richard Arnold and Billy Hogan - each earn less than half as much."
Only a select few Premier League executives earn over £2m per year. United chief executive Arnold (£2.56m) and Liverpool chief Hogan (£2.24m) wouldn't get close to Levy even if they combined their annual salaries, according to figures released by The Times."


This, mind, after a season where we finished 8th.
 
Who ... that's the question.. who will take us forward .. im
Open to the idea but no one has come up with a single person/consortium/country that want to buy us for what we are worth/levy wants/feel he deserves...

There are very few if any that would have the clubs interest at heart . Would be about profit or vanity ... the risks are high and we have no clue of who ... not the way I make decisions this is emotional entitlement...and Risks the obvious strides we have taken off the pitch.

We are a football club first and should be aiming for onfield success and to do so you need to be a strong business with great income generation (and luck which we are brick out of) it's painful we have come so close for so long the board share the blame in that 100% .. but so very few clubs win things ..

Besides it's mostly irrelevant- no one's paying the asking price in this current climate and I don't see the board becoming uncomfortable enough to sell unless we perhaps get relegated... and if you want that just to get levy out then Id have serious reservations about your common sense and love for the club

Anyway ramble over . Back from the game tinkled off as you all still back Thursday supporting my team..

Oh and ange out .. experiment over
 
DubaiSpur said:
A few ways mate. Here's one -

www.google.com

Levy's eye-watering Tottenham salary towers over Man Utd and Liverpool chiefs

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is the best-paid club chief in the Premier League.
www.google.com www.google.com

"Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy banked more than £6million last season, making him by far the highest-paid club chief in the Premier League. Levy's counterparts at Manchester United and Liverpool - Richard Arnold and Billy Hogan - each earn less than half as much."
Only a select few Premier League executives earn over £2m per year. United chief executive Arnold (£2.56m) and Liverpool chief Hogan (£2.24m) wouldn't get close to Levy even if they combined their annual salaries, according to figures released by The Times."


This, mind, after a season where we finished 8th.
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Weak sauce, that’s more than reasonable remuneration for a chair who has overseen such a huge increase in the value of the business.

If he had done the same for an investment bank or oil company he’d be on ten times as much.

Most of our players earn more than that, as have some of our previous managers.

What else you got?
 
DeanoAustin said:
Levy is the reason we aren’t serious challengers.

Ange is the reason we are 15th.
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They're both responsible, for both outcomes mate.

Postecoglou, as I've said before, is a mediocre coach, and his ceiling is roughly upper midtable. Nothing else can be expected given his suicidal tactics and approach to fitness and squad preservation.

But even with that, Postecoglou was Levy's choice - as we descended into this morass of injuries, the chance was there to bring in players to help him.

Levy has done precious little to help him, outside of Kinsky. This has contributed to our struggles as a ragged squad is run ever-more-ragged.
 
Baleforce said:
Weak sauce, that’s more than reasonable remuneration for a chair who has overseen such a huge increase in the value of the business.

If he had done the same for an investment bank or oil company he’d be on ten times as much.

Most of our players earn more than that, as have some of our previous managers.

What else you got?
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None of our players earn more than that now mate. The last ones who probably did, Kane and Ndombele, were flogged last year.

But for context, for a period, Levy was paying himself more than Kane and Pochettino. His contribution to this club has been basically zero, and far, far outweighed by both of those men - a useless deadweight paying himself more than two club legends is the definition of pointless greed.
 
I think it's time we talked about Levy objectively, because I think things are getting a little out of hand. I have never really liked him, but let's not forget he isn't the major share holder, and he doesn't control what's happening on the pitch. Many would say he hasn't in invested in players, but here are some five year figures

Premier League Clubs Net Spent Over Last Five Years
RankClubTransfer ExpenditureTransfer IncomeNet Spend
1Leicester City£257.58m£237.22m-£20.36m
2Everton£244.09m£215.48m-£28.61m
3Wolverhampton Wanderers£433.41m£397.63m-£35.78m
4Brighton & Hove Albion£455.64m£402.88m-£52.76m
5Southampton£336.04m£271.35m-£64.69m
6Brentford£229.09m£127.94m-£101.15m
7Bournemouth£287.17m£158.95m-£128.22m
8Ipswich Town£159.05m£26.78m-£132.27m
9Emirates Marketing Project£638.15m£494.08m-£144.07m
10Fulham£253.66m£107.36m-£146.30m
11Crystal Palace£265.71m£106.65m-£159.06m
12Nottingham Forest£385.63m£162.85m-£222.78m
13Aston Villa£546.00m£320.40m-£225.60m
14Liverpool£461.65m£203.52m-£258.13m
15West Ham United£545.47m£242.12m-£303.35m
16Saudi Sportswashing Machine£486.12m£114.66m-£371.46m
17Arsenal£669.35m£192.18m-£477.17m
18Tottenham Hotspur£725.52m£246.56m-£478.96m
19Manchester United£814.10m£200.60m-£613.50m
20Chelsea£1.41bn£641.11m-£768.89m

So as you can see our net spend is the third highest in the premiership. I accept we may not have spent wisely, but that isn't his job. Levy has attempted to employ the best people for this, but repeatedly they don't perform. He has employed some of the best managers in the world before he took on our present fool, and he built us the best stadium and training ground in Europe.

Today the South stand were doing a really good job of singing Levy out, but was it him who failed to motivate the players, was it him who failed to organise the defence, was it him who took our only striker off when we were 2-0 down, is it him to blame for all the injuries that have occurred due to the way we play, and is it him who refuses to change anything despite we had only achieved 5 points in 10 games (now 5 pts in 11). Let's be honest, if Ange had turned out to be a decent manager nobody would be shouting for Levy's head. Why people weren't shouting for Ange's head today is a total mystery to me.

So if Levy/Enic left tomorrow what would change? Well I suppose if we attracted a billionaire who wanted to buy the club as a hobby, then I suppose we could start to look up, but that's unlikely to happen. The chances are we would be bought out by another investment company and nothing would change. The fact is the only person who can sack Levy is Walker, and that isn't going to happen, and frankly I don't think anything would change if he did. What we really need is a top director of football, better scouts, but most importantly a decent manager.
 
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