Why Spurs fans are in for a summer of pain

Koplyanka was available free. Great player. We had the chance to get him. He saw us coming so has signed for Sevilla!!! Looks like I may have been right. Possibly, maybe, nah.
Another example of us not doing business quickly enough.

 

This brief article caught my eye this morning about who controls transfers at all Premier league clubs. A set of reporters have investigated all clubs and regarding Spurs, it is clear that Daniel Levy is very much in control of who comes in. Redknapp revealed recently that he went to levy and asked for funds to bring in an up and coming striker by the name of Sergio Aguero, levy refused to sanction the 12 million pound bid and instead signed Louis Saha.
Of course, the levy lovers will whip out the rose tinted spectacles as always and tell me that levy should have control and what a lovely job he has done in turning us into over achievers.
Below is the report on Tottenham and who is ultimately in control of the transfers:

Daniel Levy has chopped and changed in search of the ideal structure, alternating between working with a sporting director or not. The chairman currently has one in Franco Baldini who, when he joined, believed that he would be the head of recruitment. Levy has since brought in Paul Mitchell as the head of recruitment, which has raised questions as to Baldini's purpose. Mitchell arrived from Southampton, where he enjoyed a good working relationship with Mauricio Pochettino, the Tottenham manager. Pochettino says that the club have lists of targets in every position and it is Levy who invariably sets the parameters in the deals. DH

 

Is the story true? We are talking about Harry (rent-a-quote) Redknapp, who has a tendency to re-write history.

I just looked at the dates of the relevant transfers, and SA was signed in the summer window that year, and Saha was signed on the last day of the following January window. Somehow, it seems incongruous that HR asks to buy Aguero and six months later, Levy says "Here's Saha instead".

What makes the story even less believable, is that according to wiki, SA was bought for a fee reported to be in the region of £38 mill. Not only do the timings appear out of sync, but why would he be able to buy a £38 mill player for £12 mill?

I am waiting for the day that Redknapp tells us about the time he was prepared to sell Bale for £3 mill to Brum. Now that is a true story!

 

http://m.bleacherreport.com/article...e-of-forward-tottenham-need-to-aid-harry-kane

Just read this article and couldn't agree more. Great potential. Scores goals and covers bases. Have a read!

 

No doubt he will sign for anyone but Spurs. Probably a team that is allowed to have ambitions of winning the league. Of course, Spurs fans must be happy with our amazing overachievements since 2001.

 

You are not a bad writer, but you don't do yourself any favours with your constant sniping at Levy. The Redknapp story you added earlier, was so obviously questionable, and yet it fitted the anti-Levy agenda so you repeated it.

I don't think Levy is perfect, but I think we have thrived relatively since his takeover. There used to be a time when we would say, "If only we could offer them European football, we could sign all sorts of talent". When this was proven to be wrong, it became "If only we could offer them CL football". Man City could offer neither, but they could offer ridiculous money and signed many personally unattractive players who were as mercenary as the Congo could ever get.

We are up against two sugar daddies who don't care about the money, and the two biggest stadiums in the PL, (75k and 60k). United have four players reportedly on £250k per week. The most important thing today is that it is all about the money and we are competing against these financial giants with what will be the 14th largest ground as from next season.

The only thing I can see that Lewis (not Levy) can do is become a sugar daddy, but eventually, Chelsea and Man C will pay for having had a sugar daddy.

As far as I can tell, the new stadium is about two years away. Once that is to hand, then we can judge Levy against the opposition. Until then, I am one of those deluded fools that thinks that fifth is an overachievement. Had City not been flooded with oil-gusher money, we would have had five of the last six seasons in the CL. Would that have changed your mind about Levy's failures?

 

Gotta love Harry always good for a laugh, he also seems to forget that he was the one that didn't fancy Suarez. That might have been a decent forward combination of SA and LS.

 

@Mattj78

I am so pleased you were not offended by my previous comment to you. You've just gone up in my estimation, as has this forum.

 

You do write well, I agree. I object less to your vilification of Levy than to the idea that those who disagree with you love him. Mixed but slightly positive is my verdict on him and ENIC, because Spurs have mildly outperformed their resources, and many if not most share this view. Sixth biggest PL club, average fifth place the last five years = slightly above average. You can fault him for not doing more, laud him for not being Mike Ashley, or take what I think is the fair minded view that he's doing a bit better than most.