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Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

billyiddo said:
So if smaller clubs can win trophies against the odds against stronger richer teams where does that leave us with the 'Levy left our managers short" argument regarding why we never turned our multiple final/semi final appearances in to trophy wins?
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Yeah hence why I said occasionally, 2 trophies in 25 years isn’t what I would call occasionally. I think it’s fair to attach some responsibility to the players and the managers who didn’t get over the line in certain big games but it’s also true to say our squad depth wasn’t as the clubs we were facing.
 
clownfoot said:
In terms of why Levy was put in place as chairman, the graphic shows he excelled at his job. ENIC as a company has one aim - make shareholders profit.

I would argue this isn’t the correct metric to measure success as, but I’m not a shareholder. I want success in trophy terms. My investment in Spurs is emotional, not financial. That has been Levy and ENICs shortcoming in my opinion. But as I’ve said above, that’s not why he had the job
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Its not a shortcoming, it's a balance.

There are many fans whose emotional investment would have as bankrupt within 5 years if they were in charge .

Likewise, they'd have to find a balance as well.
 
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Jurgen the German said:
Yeah hence why I said occasionally, 2 trophies in 25 years isn’t what I would call occasionally. I think it’s fair to attach some responsibility to the players and the managers who didn’t get over the line in certain big games but it’s also true to say our squad depth wasn’t as the clubs we were facing.
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It wasn't and i would say that is a reflection of the comparative revenue/spending power of us vs the clubs we faced in those crunch games at those junctures - higher revenues = more money to spend on deeper/stronger squads, surely that's self explanatory?
 
billyiddo said:
It wasn't and i would say that is a reflection of the comparative revenue/spending power of us vs the clubs we faced in those crunch games at those junctures - higher revenues = more money to spend on deeper/stronger squads, surely that's self explanatory?
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AKA Chelsea and Abramovich v 34,000 seater WHL and Joe Lewis holding any purse string.
 
In a rare exception to the norm, our Chairman is not leaving under a cloud or in a crisis. The club is unarguably in the best financial position it has ever been, with the fundamentals to remain so for many years to come. This is a testament to Daniel Levy's life's work. I hope that whatever his next chapter holds, he enjoys it, and I hope whoever is following approaches it with 50% of the passion, attention to detail, and love he had for this club.

Now, it's time to kick on on the pitch. Cheers, Danny boy. It's been a long time since I stood watching Gary Doherty lead the line, and the club is in a very different place.

You did well for us - thank you
 
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JerusalemMan said:
I remember shortly before I went to university there was a season where we really looked like we were going down and had to win against Wimbledon to ensure safety.
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Levys record on the footballing side isn't half as bad as the moaners make out. When Enic took over Spurs were not much better than Everton now. Lower half finishes and not attaining much. Since we outperformed our peers like Villa and Everton, played regular CL, made a number of finals, and won two pots. Not stellar but wholly enjoyable. Levy signed the likes of Modric, Bale, Vad de Vart...we had plenty of good times.

What the moaners lament is that Levy didn't always successful build on the platform that he created. But the truth is that is what is occurring now. It takes time, there aren't always shortcuts.
 
Lilbaz said:
If it was a black player and not levy, would you feel the same? Or would you be shouting racist abuse?
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no its best not to get personal

its got to do with the textbook proper way to do things

have a private chat with that idiotic poster, threaten him and get him to put out a full retraction on social media, radio and local press, explaining clearly why it was a bad joke, how the club has been accomodating .... SO THAT OTHERS CAN LEARN HOW TO BEHAVE

missed opportunity to demonstrate some class!
 
metalgear said:
no its best not to get personal

its got to do with the textbook proper way to do things

have a private chat with that idiotic poster, threaten him and get him to put out a full retraction on social media, radio and local press, explaining clearly why it was a bad joke, how the club has been accomodating .... SO THAT OTHERS CAN LEARN HOW TO BEHAVE

missed opportunity to demonstrate some class!
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I agree with your sentiments to an extent but virtually everyone is contrite when they have been been caught out and may be suffering the penalties of their actions, the courts are full such cases. We live in a world where few seem aware there are consequences to their actions.
 
SpurMeUp said:
Levys record on the footballing side isn't half as bad as the moaners make out. When Enic took over Spurs were not much better than Everton now. Lower half finishes and not attaining much. Since we outperformed our peers like Villa and Everton, played regular CL, made a number of finals, and won two pots. Not stellar but wholly enjoyable. Levy signed the likes of Modric, Bale, Vad de Vart...we had plenty of good times.

What the moaners lament is that Levy didn't always successful build on the platform that he created. But the truth is that is what is occurring now. It takes time, there aren't always shortcuts.
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Our performance (average position) is the best in the club's history, our cup runs are also right up there, and our trophy haul while admittedly short is not hugely off the club average, all done while building a structure to secure our future and competing with the Chelsea & City's (something no previous club leadership had to deal with).

I'm a bit amazed by the PR/messaging coming out that the "Lewis family" was not happy with on pitch results, literally wtf? they/he was the one handicapping Levy all these years, while Levy became their fall guy.

To me, if they decided to change direction (actually invest) and felt someone else was needed, that's a decision but the messaging is way off point. I hope they understand how much flack Levy took for their failing as ownership.
 
metalgear said:
no its best not to get personal

its got to do with the textbook proper way to do things

have a private chat with that idiotic poster, threaten him and get him to put out a full retraction on social media, radio and local press, explaining clearly why it was a bad joke, how the club has been accomodating .... SO THAT OTHERS CAN LEARN HOW TO BEHAVE

missed opportunity to demonstrate some class!
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I don’t think the club would particularly have wanted to draw attention to the “joke”.
 
SpurMeUp said:
Levys record on the footballing side isn't half as bad as the moaners make out. When Enic took over Spurs were not much better than Everton now. Lower half finishes and not attaining much. Since we outperformed our peers like Villa and Everton, played regular CL, made a number of finals, and won two pots. Not stellar but wholly enjoyable. Levy signed the likes of Modric, Bale, Vad de Vart...we had plenty of good times.

What the moaners lament is that Levy didn't always successful build on the platform that he created. But the truth is that is what is occurring now. It takes time, there aren't always shortcuts.
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I agree with you but for some reason some people get very upset when we are compared to Everton and Villa they think we are superior to them , both have had great domestic success over the years and both have won a league title more recently than us . Also if you go back to the late nineties and early 2000's, in financial terms Saudi Sportswashing Machine were bigger than us , their revenue was larger than ours not so now.
What Levy has done in keeping us competitive with high league positions , qualifying for Europe, a few cup finals and cup semis and all the while having to buy up land around The Lane and in Enfield to build state of the art facilities is quite astounding.

Delotte money league for anybody that's interested showing Saudi Sportswashing Machine above us in the early years.

Deloitte Football Money League - Wikipedia

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DTA said:
Right…how many semis and finals where we in, in Levy’s Tenure?

apart from Man U, Arse and Liverpool which non doped club competed more (we’re in as many semis and finals?

In fact apart from those 3, all much bigger and more successful than us in every metric when Levy took over and the Doped clubs, who is the closest team to us in terms of semis and finals and how many?
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Competed? Yay, maybe we should build a statue for anyone who's at the club for 'competing'.
How many should we build for the likes of Pleat, Jol, Poch, Redknapp for 'competing'?

"The most Semi-finals, you'll never sing that!"
 
Yiddo said:
The biggest question of all is why now? why right at this moment? 3 games into the season, it seems a bit odd.

Also i bet that fan who got banned is fuming right now.
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This is complete guess work

But I wonder if the Eze deal was the final straw

High profile transfer failure and it seems that Levy playing silly buggers and moving the goal post played a part of it falling through

Compare how quickly the Xavi deal went through, basically meeting what they wanted straight away , paid the player what they wanted and then done.
 
Legohamster said:
This is complete guess work

But I wonder if the Eze deal was the final straw

High profile transfer failure and it seems that Levy playing silly buggers and moving the goal post played a part of it falling through

Compare how quickly the Xavi deal went through, basically meeting what they wanted straight away , paid the player what they wanted and then done.
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I think that the talk of this being the end game of what was started back when Charrington was first appointed is probably the truth of the matter - having Levy see the club through the summer transfer window before making the big move is probably the most sensible decision with that in mind and anything that did or didn't happen over the summer months wouldn't have factored in to any decision.
 
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