Look this is going round in circles but compared to other Spurs forums, twitter, social media etc I’d say this place is pro ENIC. Not sure how I’m supposed to quantify it really. That’s just my opinion.
No doubt on that. I’m not criticising at all (just observing), but it’s very clear that this forum is quite an outlier when it comes to views expressed on Daniel Levy.
I’ve listened to a lot of Spurs podcasts over the past 48 hours. I’ve yet to find one which thinks that change wasn’t overdue.
The View From the Lane is, for me, a pretty good barometer of opinion; it’s populated by professional journalists, a couple of whom are Spurs fans, and a few who aren’t.
They produced, for me, a very balanced programme post-Daniel’s sacking. It acknowledged the great things he’s done, but talked about how he’s come to be viewed within the game, for some time now, as ‘The Mourinho of chairmen.’
He arrived into a world of clubs owned by sports company and carpet warehouse owners who also happened to run football clubs; he was the young disruptor who did things differently.
But the football landscape has completely changed during his 25 years at the helm, and he has latterly operated in a landscape peopled by nation state and (actual!) gangster owners - and he has struggled to deal with that (see this summer window, where there is plenty of evidence that he was completely played in the Eze transfer and, possibly, the MGW one too).
He has struggled to adapt. Other chairmen dealing with him used to be wary and fearful - of late, they just thought that he was a pain in the arse that they’d rather avoid dealing with.
The main thing said to me by fans of other clubs that I know over the last few days is, “You must be happy Levy’s gone.” To them, he had become (rightly or wrongly) a symbol of all those times we never quite got over the line. Time will tell whether they are right to suddenly be feeling a little bit more fearful.
Almost all of my Spurs supporting friends and family feel like me; grateful for what he did off the field, but happy to see change and a new approach to things hopefully coming into play - feelings which are very largely echoed on the other Spurs forums that I’ve dipped into over the part couple of days.
I’m not quite sure why this forum is so different in its opinion on him. One of the many quirks that makes this place interesting to me and keeps me coming back!