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Daniel Levy - Chairman

RigorMortis said:
That’s not a logical decision then is it.
The fanbase reaction caused hard nosed business man Daniel Levy to appoint a manager with no real top level experience
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It’s very logical, how many times have you seen a post on here saying “I don’t care about the result, I just want to play attacking football”.

He’s given the customer what they wanted.
 
What do people expect when they call for Levy to bring in players?

I've got to assume our transfer strategy is planned in advance. So we'll have targets that we're looking at for key positions. However, at the moment, we're struggling at CB due to injuries as one example. What sort of player are we expecting to bring in because to bring in quality, you're looking at 60m, maybe more in January. What happens to that player then when Romero and VdV are fit for example?

We are not going to sign quality players at this time of year in reaction to an injury crisis and nor should we because whatever we spend now that is unplanned will take from what we can spend in the summer or what we had planned to spend. The money pit isn't bottomless. I also don't keep close tabs on other clubs but I'm not aware of any major signings in January yet besides the lad City got.

Personally, I'd expected perhaps a couple of loan deals.
 
Baleforce said:
It’s very logical, how many times have you seen a post on here saying “I don’t care about the result, I just want to play attacking football”.

He’s given the customer what they wanted.
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Why is that logical.
If it’s not a path he is committed to and he is merely giving the consumers what they want, that shows he lacks rational conviction in his decisions.

I don’t see many people saying they don’t care about the result either.
 
RigorMortis said:
Why is that logical.
If it’s not a path he is committed to and he is merely giving the consumers what they want, that shows he lacks rational conviction in his decisions.

I don’t see many people saying they don’t care about the result either.
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He literally said it was a path he was committing too when we hired Ange.

Check posts from Conte leaving onwards, plenty did.
 
Baleforce said:
He literally said it was a path he was committing too when we hired Ange.

Check posts from Conte leaving onwards, plenty did.
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Posts here are hardly indicative of an entire fan base.

He’s said it a few times, remember the Tottenham DNA comment and then Nuno arrived.
Again gives no credence to any logical or thought through plan, just someone hoping to somehow stumble on a coherent strategy
 
DeanoAustin said:
What do people expect when they call for Levy to bring in players?

I've got to assume our transfer strategy is planned in advance. So we'll have targets that we're looking at for key positions. However, at the moment, we're struggling at CB due to injuries as one example. What sort of player are we expecting to bring in because to bring in quality, you're looking at 60m, maybe more in January. What happens to that player then when Romero and VdV are fit for example?

We are not going to sign quality players at this time of year in reaction to an injury crisis and nor should we because whatever we spend now that is unplanned will take from what we can spend in the summer or what we had planned to spend. The money pit isn't bottomless. I also don't keep close tabs on other clubs but I'm not aware of any major signings in January yet besides the lad City got.

Personally, I'd expected perhaps a couple of loan deals.
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The only permanent deals we should be doing is ones like Kinsky that we had planned for the summer but pulled forward.
Other than that we should be going for loan deals to plug a few short term gaps due to injuries.
Panic buying is going to set us back in the long term and leave us struggling to off load more unwanted players.
We've also several players coming back from loan in the summer that will strengthen the squad, especially at CB.
 
DubSpur said:
The only permanent deals we should be doing is ones like Kinsky that we had planned for the summer but pulled forward.
Other than that we should be going for loan deals to plug a few short term gaps due to injuries.
Panic buying is going to set us back in the long term and leave us struggling to off load more unwanted players.
We've also several players coming back from loan in the summer that will strengthen the squad, especially at CB.
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Not convinced there is anything out there on a loan that makes sense, but we will see
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Not convinced there is anything out there on a loan that makes sense, but we will see
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So what does Levy do? Overpay (as you do in January especially when you're desperate) for lads we hadn't planned to bring in at this point and they may be sat on the bench in 2-3 weeks and reduce our summer transfer budget.
 
DeanoAustin said:
So what does Levy do? Overpay (as you do in January especially when you're desperate) for lads we hadn't planned to bring in at this point and they may be sat on the bench in 2-3 weeks and reduce our summer transfer budget.
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Well we need players
Maybe just aim for the players we want permanently
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Well we need players
Maybe just aim for the players we want permanently
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There's a possibility they just aren't available unless we spunk 100m-120m on them now. I know it's ITK bollox most likely but it could be right or at least illustrative of the difficulty of the situation - on another forum today I read we have identified two targets who are out of contract in the summer and their clubs don't want to sell now.

Transfers are difficult to navigate as evidenced by the lack of business being done this January and the last few Januarys.

And the primary reason we are in this situation, IMO, is that the manager has mismanaged his players badly. From a business point of view, he's damaging multi-million pound assets. I'm amazed he's getting away with it.
 
DeanoAustin said:
There's a possibility they just aren't available unless we spunk 100m-120m on them now. I know it's ITK bollox most likely but it could be right or at least illustrative of the difficulty of the situation - on another forum today I read we have identified two targets who are out of contract in the summer and their clubs don't want to sell now.

Transfers are difficult to navigate as evidenced by the lack of business being done this January and the last few Januarys.

And the primary reason we are in this situation, IMO, is that the manager has mismanaged his players badly. From a business point of view, he's damaging multi-million pound assets. I'm amazed he's getting away with it.
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If we want them we can do deals now to make sure we have secured them and go public on that
I think it’s just make believe but we shall see

The primary reason we are in this mess is because the club chose to gamble on the squad quantity. Ange has then gambled on players fitness because of quantity
The first issue drives the second IMO

Last year when we had the injuries I don’t believe we had the same issues with player risk… of if they were there they weren’t as public
 
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