To the people that wonder how anyone thinks Spurs fans have it good, or that Levy is doing a good job .. let's explain
By luck (as football is a cycle), the clubs that were on the up at the beginning of the PL era and the modern CL participation, got a huge advantage over other clubs, were able to build bigger stadiums, pay bigger fees/wages and create a cycle of success that was very hard via any natural momentum (other than a Billionaire Sugar Daddy) to break into. Look at the lower leagues, there are lots of clubs with significant history/fanbase that have faded away.
Levy has rescued Tottenham from that fate, created an infrastructure plan (Stadium delays more due to bricky UK government/policies than anything else), tried to keep the club true to the "Tottenham Way" and has kept us in the fight (while not quite delivering complete success, a cup and CL QF), all while not risking the club fiscally, and in fact, staying within the top 15 richest clubs in Europe and probably 1 of 3 in England that actually operates within a responsable budget.
Yes we pay high ticket prices and merchadise fees, yes the club markets the brick out of small things like DVDs, but that's good business, and that's why Tottenham has a chance of breaking that top 4 monopoly (and why we would all be extremely frustrated if we miss it this season), and returning to true sustained success.
Would you rather be an Everton fan, where 6-8th is all you could ever hope for, always having to buy a player on the cheap/loan and praying that your current manager doesn't leave and that some Sugar Daddy comes along otherwise the club is going to slowly slip away?
By luck (as football is a cycle), the clubs that were on the up at the beginning of the PL era and the modern CL participation, got a huge advantage over other clubs, were able to build bigger stadiums, pay bigger fees/wages and create a cycle of success that was very hard via any natural momentum (other than a Billionaire Sugar Daddy) to break into. Look at the lower leagues, there are lots of clubs with significant history/fanbase that have faded away.
Levy has rescued Tottenham from that fate, created an infrastructure plan (Stadium delays more due to bricky UK government/policies than anything else), tried to keep the club true to the "Tottenham Way" and has kept us in the fight (while not quite delivering complete success, a cup and CL QF), all while not risking the club fiscally, and in fact, staying within the top 15 richest clubs in Europe and probably 1 of 3 in England that actually operates within a responsable budget.
Yes we pay high ticket prices and merchadise fees, yes the club markets the brick out of small things like DVDs, but that's good business, and that's why Tottenham has a chance of breaking that top 4 monopoly (and why we would all be extremely frustrated if we miss it this season), and returning to true sustained success.
Would you rather be an Everton fan, where 6-8th is all you could ever hope for, always having to buy a player on the cheap/loan and praying that your current manager doesn't leave and that some Sugar Daddy comes along otherwise the club is going to slowly slip away?
