We don't know why Joe Lewis has spent money on Spurs. Maybe its just that, an investment. I don't know if he can just pay £40m for a Leandro just like that, maybe he can or maybe he can't. But for whatever reason he is there and by and large our club is respected as being very clever with the books. Daniel Levy takes a lot of credit for this.
Judging Levy on one bit of possible business is so foolish it is unreal. You have to look at the whole track record.
And anyway, so we didn't sign a striker in January? Who were realistic targets? Players at the right standard for Spurs, willing to come, able to be released from their club? Available at an appropriate price? And likely to fit into our squad, given that we already have three forwards all with big personalities to keep happy?
And to what level is Levy responsible for this failure?
Even if we had Lionel Messi ready to come to WHL for 30p a week, Barcelona willing to take Jenas as a straight swap, and Levy said no you pay for EasyJet flights too well that is still one bad deal, out of a handful of bad decisions against an absolute stack of good ones.
Thank you Mr Levy and Mr Lewis for putting the investment in and organising us in a way that we now compete for every trophy we enter, for having the patience to push through a deal for a 56,000 state of the art stadium, for making sure we can have entertaining players like Van Der Vaart, Gareth Bale AND hold on to them for a while, and for doing what was unthinkable even just 7 years ago and pushing the top four places in the league. 4th, 5th, 4th, 3/4/5th would have been a dream for me in 2004 when it was Man U-Arsenal-Chelsea-Liverpool monopoly until infinity.
I'd rather be a Spurs fan than an Everton fan, with all the potential for the above but little fruition.
I'd rather be a Spurs fan than a City fan, with a gradual build to success than overnight transition.
I'd rather be a Spurs fan than a Saudi Sportswashing Machine fan, with appalling management of finances, fans and tradition over the same period of time.
I'd rather be a Spurs fan than a Villa fan, with the gradual decline of the team and stagnant management.
7 years ago, these were our peers, similar clubs, similar fan bases. Our journey over this time has shown far better value, far more care and far more effort than any of them. That is down to Martin Jol, Juande Ramos, Harry Redknapp, Andre Villas-Boas, Luka Modric, Ledley King, 70,000 loyal fans. But choreographing all of that, the chief puppeteer is Mr Daniel Levy, and he would have no strings if the money from Mr Joe Lewis wasn't there in the first place.
