Unhappy about how the club is run in general, or about particular aspects of how it is run?
Particular aspects of it, not the whole thing - namely, our decision to basically sleep through the window because penny-pinching won out over a bit of forward ambition. The rest of it is progressing nicely, so there isn't that much to be concerned about. Just this enduring failing of our chairman, amidst his generally above-average handling of other things.
I don't think I've met a single Spurs fan over the past four five years who aren't generally happy with the project we have going now - sure, some are complaining about how we're not good enough to get over the line in semi-finals, some over how we don't splash the cash on mega stars in the transfer window, some of the complaints are about the modernisation in football in general and not really about Spurs (and the money thrown around), and recently the increase in ticket prices.
Right, and that's my point. People are unhappy about many separate things, which is why the Trust was right to point them out. But I don't think they're unhappy in *general*, no.
Even me. I'd like ENIC to sell up, take their deserved profit and leave, but until then, as long as Poch is around, I don't mind too much. And I've given up expecting us to be ambitious in transfer windows - apparently that's now being construed as making no signings whatsoever, so for the sake of my mental health, I'm going to just stop. Levy can be Levy all he wants - Poch will fix the damage he causes with his penny-pinching.
I'm generally happy, but this window, I was and remain unhappy. And the Trust captured my feelings well, is all.
I just don't see how anyone can be generally unhappy about how the club is run, or call out anyone who say that they are "happy clappers". How could it have been run any better? Would it be better to have a rich oligarch pump money into the club? Wouldn't we just complain about that too after a while, if we don't win one or more trophy each season?
Would it better to have a rich oligarch fund us and make us win things? As long as he isn't a murderer or tyrant, yes. As for complaining about winning things, also yes - that's progress. If it came down to it, I'd prefer being unhappy over not having won enough to being unhappy over having won nothing at all.
We don't win prizes for being economically well-run. And we don't even pay a living wage to our employees (another one of Levy's failings, imo), so none of our penny-pinching actually filters down to the people that need it the most - likewise, we have the highest ticket prices in the league, so young people and poorer folks are shut out of our games.
I don't see what's to love about being 'economically well-run'. If we had a rich owner who pays all the staff above living wage and subsidizes tickets, among other things, those would be tangible benefits to the community, even if said owner was Levy-like in the transfer market. But right now, what is the tangible benefit? We play by a set of rules no one else plays by, and it's not a particularly moral stance, so what's great about it?
Not much, imo.
There will always be people unhappy about certain aspects of how the club is run, of course, but I just don't think Spurs fans in general are unhappy or even neutral to what is going on at Spurs now - and if they are, maybe they should do a rain check and think back to the 90's, how awesome it was to see Andy Sinton not getting past his man on the left wing and Ian Walker picking the 5th ball out of the net for the umptienth time that season.
I agree, I think people are generally satisfied. But they're unhappy with this specific window, I think, and the Trust summed up that unhappiness. That's all.
As for the 90's, one of the reasons I dislike that example is because it is a permanent lowering of our history - using the awful 90's as some benchmark that Spurs would be at sans Levy ignores the fact that the 90's were an anomaly - before the 90's, we were one of England's big four, and were an accomplished cup side with a rich pedigree for innovative, attacking football that was known across England.
Yes, the 90's were awful. But the years since have seen us win one League Cup in twenty years, which is actually one of our longest-ever trophy droughts. We were a bigger club once, than we are now. And we should be measuring ourselves against that - not against the 90's, which was 20 years ago and just sets low expectations for Levy.
