Dear Supporter,
I want to start my notes by saying I hope you and your loved ones are well after what has been a challenging, often overwhelming year – and one that has called for immense resilience.
What was your thinking when you tried to furlough the THFC family at the first point?
The hope must be that we are now looking ahead to a return to what we all enjoyed before the pandemic struck. Today is an excellent example – the opportunity to come together, return to our home and for 90 minutes cheer the team on.
Is that you trying to deflect a mass protest against ENIC and more specifically yourself, which coincidentally is gathering pace?
This season, for many reasons, we have not met our raised expectations on the pitch. Since we lost the Champions League Final in June, 2019, we have invested in excess of £250m in new players. Everyone had high hopes with the squad we had assembled. Unfortunately, despite sitting top of the Premier League in December, we have not been able to sustain this position. We reached the Carabao Cup Final, however we had a disappointing exit from the Europa League and now find ourselves fighting to qualify for Europe, having competed in European competition for 14 of the last 15 seasons.
Who had high hopes for the squad? As fans we could all see that we would struggle with the current crop. Who assembled the squad? It was not the managers.
The new stadium is pivotal to generating revenues to invest in the squad. Every single penny generated gets re-invested back into our Club.
Whats the point in reinvesting every penny back into the club when you have not delivered players that the manager wants, rather get in stock that you can sell for a profit? Is it not time to change your strategy and let the footballing people deal with footballing matters rather than the finance people dictating what players are brought and sold?
We are absolutely clear that central to our ambitions is a successful football team – it is what we all crave. We have come close over the last seven seasons and everyone’s focus is on a return to regular Champions League participation and competing for honours.
Well you have clearly highlighted our focus as a club to return to the champions league, competing for honours is laughable. We got lucky in our run to the CL final.
I have said it many times and I will say it again – everything we do is in the long-term interests of the Club. I have always been and will continue to be ambitious for our Club and its fans.
Daniel I do not believe our ambitions are the same, if you continue to be yourself and call it ambitious ... actually you are right to a certain extent ... you are very ambitious in thinking that we are remotely going to be competitive in the league or Europe when you continue to interfere in the transfer market with your tried and failed transfer strategy. Why is it that we are the only club that has to leave our transfers to the last minute of every window and then get left with upstarts that the manager never wanted?
As a Club we have been so focused on delivering the stadium and dealing with the impact of the pandemic, that I feel we lost sight of some key priorities and what’s truly in our DNA. Our work in the community and with the NHS is an example of when we get it right, but we don’t get everything right. It has never been because we don’t care about or respect you, our fans – nothing could be further from the truth.
How has the stadium clouded your vision about our "DNA"? You tried to furlough your own staff while getting a taxpayers backed loan from the government. You don't get the DNA of the club, 1 Carling cup in 20 years under your tenure.
Respect our fans by charging the highest money in the league for our last game of the season? Why not give them for free in a ballot? You would have gone up in my estimation as a person that cares about our fans. No one expects you to get everything right all of the time, but to get the same thing wrong time and time again is frustrating when every man and his dog can see your transfer strategy and set up is not viable in delivering cups and titles, while we see our rivals rack up cups and titles during their bad seasons.
We have announced we shall establish a Club Advisory Panel that we believe will provide wide, authentic representation and ensure our fans are at the heart of Club decisions, with the Chair to be appointed annually as a Non-Executive of the Board with full voting rights, a first for any Premier League club.
How much influence will this patronising set-up actually change things? Are you one to listen and take advice? Because if you took advice for your decisions of late, you all deserve to be sacked.
We shall focus on the recruitment of a new Head Coach. We are acutely aware of the need to select someone whose values reflect those of our great Club and return to playing football with the style for which we are known – free-flowing, attacking and entertaining – whilst continuing to embrace our desire to see young players flourish from our Academy alongside experienced talent.
Whats the point in any manager coming into the club when you will cut off one arm with your transfer strategy, hoping to stay competitive enough to appease the fans without making a push for genuinely pushing for titles.
It has been evident all season just how much we have missed your presence in the stands. It is a huge lift for all of us to have our final home game of the season with so many of you back here to support the team.
Do me a favour, you miss the revenue. Would i be welcome at the club if i made a huge banner saying Levy and £NIC out?
I want to thank you all for your tremendous support as always this season, despite having to watch much of it from afar, both here and around the world.
The players and coaches will show their appreciation at the final whistle and thank you for your fantastic support in such extraordinary circumstances.
I want to give my thanks to Ryan Mason and the coaches, Chris Powell, Nigel Gibbs, Ledley King, Michel Vorm and Perry Suckling who have stepped in to lead the team through to the end of the season – and to our players – they have had to continue to perform and be professional during times when they and their families have also been affected by the pandemic.
I should also like to thank all our staff for their continued hard work in often trying circumstances. Whilst many enterprises ceased to operate they continued to deliver football matches and drive off-pitch digital and virtual projects.
I urge everyone to get behind the team as we look to finish the season strongly and hopefully secure European football again next season.
I hope you and your families have a great summer break and that we welcome you back in August to a full capacity stadium.
We are all part of the Spurs family and together we are stronger.
No sir, you have isolated fans and do not understand what the fans want.
Yours,
PR Executive (Daniel Levy thumbs up)
. The place is made for my tits always has been.
