I don't know if there's anything close to the truth in this but it's really quite incredible.


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Unfortunately this has been the case for several years.
Sugar made a HUGE mistake when he sold out to
Levy and co.

When it comes to Adebayor, nothing would surprise me. There cannot have been many more difficult players to deal with than him. I don't know if he was always like this but he seems to be a total crackpot now. It would be interesting to know what the rest of the squad think of him. All we can do now is to wait for his contract to run out and then breathe a sigh of relief.

Spot on. I'm sure Harry and Jol were emergency appointments, intended to keep us ticking over until Levy found his next big European name, but both exceeded all expectations, and he had to wait for a slight slump before he could stab them both in the back, and once again go for a Yes Man. Maybe one day he'll get it right, but I wont hold my breath.

I've never understood the point of moaning about Levy. He is simply doing his job. If we want to compete with the teams above us then we need access to the same level of finances that they have. Levy doesn't have it. So where do we get it?

If Levy did stab Harry in the back it was because he was already halfway out the door on the way to the England job.

I can never understand why people support Levy. He is NOT just doing his job . He is making a nice little packet for himself while completely selling the fans down the river. He could have got Barahino for £2m more than he offered. Are you seriously telling me Spurs cannot afford this.

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Perhaps if he told us our limitations it would help, rather than keep playing games, and pretending we're heading for the big time, when he's penny pinching all the time.

He continually raises hopes, and fails to deliver.

But he wasn't by the time the knife was inserted. That was all over. I think Levy assumed Harry was going, and was planning his next move, but Harry didn't get the England job, which meant he had to get rid.

Whatever people think of Harry, those three seasons were light years ahead in terms of entertainment, and hope, than what we've endured the last three.

Levy has screwed up time after time with managers, and with transfers.

The books may be in great order, but we don't get points, or entertainment for that.

I don't particularly support Levy. I don't have a strong feeling about him either way. As I understand it, we are a club run purely on a business basis i.e. without cash injections from a mega-rich sugar daddy, obviously in recent years we have been consistently in the top third of the Premier League and apparently we are financially secure. That doesn't seem to be what one might expect from being sold down the river.

I'd be interested how you know that we lost out on signing Berahino for the sake of offering an additional £2 million.

Based purely on what Jeremy Peace has said in the media, West Brom were variously not prepared to sell him at all (not that it stopped Tony Pulis speculating that he might still be sold), selling him was "not on their agenda" (whatever that meant), our first bid on 18th August left it too late for them to sign a replacement (obviously Rondon signed a few days before wasn't it after all), we hadn't met their valuation and we hadn't offered enough up front. It is by no means clear to me that irrespective of whether Levy had offered an extra £2 million today, last week or last month that Berahino would be our player tonight.

The point is Levy deliberately bids under the value a club put on a player (25m in this case) knowing the club is certain to turn it down.
Why I think he sells us down the river is because he repeats the same behaviour every time , conning fans he wishes to buy a striker when having no real interest in paying the market prices.
He is quite happy to see the club stagnate while he is able to make a tidy profit for ENIC who are an investment company who have very little interest in the club or football.

No, you're right about the timeline and about the entertainment offered while Harry was manager; although I think the quality of the players had something to do with it and in particular our luck that Bale (who don't forget Harry tried to get rid of) turned from the ugly duckling to a swan in front of our eyes. In the end, I cannot say that I was overly sorry to see Harry go because despite the entertainment on the pitch I was heartily sick of his ridiculous statements and media persona although I would have liked to see how he fared post Bale.

None of us know what really happened with Harry but the story goes that he came back with his tail between his legs and and a new agent in tow that tried to screw us for a massive wage increase. Given the fact that Harry had spent half the season in the longest and most public job interview in history it seems to me that if the story is true that he wasn't in the strongest negotiating position.

I'm sure a lot of us can remember what it's like when the books aren't in order.

You really believe that Levy is perpetrating a huge con-trick; pretending that he wants to sign players but then purposely offering a price that he knows will be unacceptable to the selling club in order to ensure that the deal won't go through?

I think the only thing I should say to that is that I don't believe it for a second.

Well all I can say is that several consecutive unsuccessful windows when we have failed to sign a decent striker suggests otherwise.

I am a Levy supporter as well, he has a complete blind side as far as managers go, and maybe it is an F.A. Yes Man problem? Overall though i wouldn't swap Levy as a chairman with any of the other prem teams.

This Berahino thing is a joke though, no other prem teams are interested and the player will be available for 10m at xmas.

The struggles we appear to have getting players - who on earth would want to work for Pochettino? The man has all the charisma of an overused toilet at a music festival.

He's selling a product that he wants supporters and sponsors to buy. He's never going to come out and tell us not to expect too much because we will always struggle to compete with some other teams. Just the same as the makers of Pepsi don't come out with the advertising slogan "tastes almost as good as Coke".

In any case, do we really need to be told our limitations? Aren't they perfectly obvious? Surely we all know that we don't have the money to pay the transfer fees and more importantly the wages that the teams above (and even some of the teams below) us pay. That's not Levy's fault. It's just a fact of life. It's up to us to understand it, live with it and not to build up our expectations that we can defy the harsh reality that in the long (and increasingly, the short) term it is money that dictates success in football.

He was willing to stump up the cash to buy Soldado, who was (and on form at his new club is) a very decent striker. Unfortunately it just didn't work out here.

With regards to this window, the thing that worries me most about us not signing another striker is that we are only a few games in and already Harry looks knackered. We are at risk of burning him out if he doesn't start getting some breathers. But it'll be interesting to see how/who we play when he does come off.

So basically our season rests on Kane staying injury free.

I do have to laugh at some of this 'Arry revisionism. Yes a lot of the time it was entertaining (although kamikaze was probably a more apt description for much of that), but a lot of the time was also dreadful.

There were more than enough valid reasons for his departure at the time. Let's not pretend Levy just got bored and fired him on a whim.

That's only one consideration as far as I'm concerned. What if (as is equally likely IMO) he stays injury-free....but turns out not to be as good as we (the club) think? For me, the problem was us looking for a back-up striker to Kane, when we should've been looking for one at least as good as we think he is.

Tottenham's is this season the 13th biggest club in the world. There is plenty of money in the PL, so much so that two bob clubs like Stoke are happy to spend £14 million on players.

Levy has broken even or made money on transfers for 6 years. Not spent a penny net.

As I mentioned earlier, obv. a lot of this is about funding as much of the stadium project upfront, it's the bullshit of pretending to bid for decent players he has no intention of signing that irritates - not so much the fact of it but the fact of taking us all for mugs. Year after year.

Levy did pick up £86 million just before. He basically got seven players on a free.

The fact is, Pochettino wanted a defensive midfielder and a striker and has got neither. The Spurs board has to take responsibility for that.

To leave the pursuit of those until the last two weeks is asking for trouble - especially when you have been told by West Brom & Southampton that they are not for sale.

They said no a week ago - show your full hand then and move on, if you have to. Don't live under the misconception that you can bully these clubs at the last minute.

From now until January, I suspect Levy will be first in line for any chants/booing at WHL - way before Pochettino and the team get it.