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[robp135]

The great thing about Levy is that he actually wanted us to be long term sustainable. He knew we needed to increase our revenues if we truly wanted to endure as a top club. It fudges me off no end this narrative that has formed around poor old Villa not being able to spend to compete, after doing oh so well in recent years. Well….we did exactly as well as Villa have done, and we did it while living through an age of austerity in order to finance a massive infrastructure project, constantly selling our best players and operating the lowest wages to turnover ratio in the league.

I tip my hat massively to Levy for what he was able to do with that. And agree with the comment that for so long, his strategy benefitted him, Lewis. And us. But at some point it stopped working, and last summer was simply not good enough. He had to go.

There is simply no way that under Levy or with Levy in any position of power we’d have pulled off this summer under him. It’s like a different club. That’s not to say he was all bad. In fact he was excellent and top of the range for so long. But he ran out of road. A quarter of a century is a great innings, and there’s no shame in that. But I’m glad we made the moves that we did.

Levy was the right person to be in charge of running the club from 2001-2021. I’d argue had Lewis bought the club sooner and put Levy in charge we would be in a better position. But from 2021 onward we needed someone more ambitious on the pitch. You cannot charge the highest price season ticket in a £1B stadium and put out a mid table team.

 

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

Levy was the right person to be in charge of running the club from 2001-2021. I’d argue had Lewis bought the club sooner and put Levy in charge we would be in a better position. But from 2021 onward we needed someone more ambitious on the pitch. You cannot charge the highest price season ticket in a £1B stadium and put out a mid table team.

Totally agreed. This is exactly it.

I’m very interested in how the kids think about boosting the value here. The calculation of how much more cash is needed to boost the valuation by how much.

But I’m happy that at a minimum they want us competing like a top club for top players, and I hope this is now our level. I don’t expect the same amount every summer, but when we need a top replacement, we go for it. That’s all I really ask. The club with the most expensive stadium and highest prices should be doing that.

 

[robp135]

Totally agreed. This is exactly it.

I’m very interested in how the kids think about boosting the value here. The calculation of how much more cash is needed to boost the valuation by how much.

But I’m happy that at a minimum they want us competing like a top club for top players, and I hope this is now our level. I don’t expect the same amount every summer, but when we need a top replacement, we go for it. That’s all I really ask. The club with the most expensive stadium and highest prices should be doing that.

The only way to grow the revenues now is on field success. Bigger prize money for starters. But we had got to the point where being the worst of the best teams was beginning to hurt the club in terms of commercial. Your can’t be the plucky North London underdog in a 60,000 state of the art billion pound stadium. But we’re also the not anywhere near challenging for the major honours. The 2 superstar players had left without being replaced. So what’s the incentive for a kid in x,y,z country to support Spurs?

That begins to impact what brands are prepared to pay us. It begins to hurt ticket sales. The firms that buy corporate boxes will just stick to Arsenal & Chelsea in London.