The target for Poch and the team was not to win any trophies but to build the stadium?
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It's so blatant Poch is telling the chairman he wants to be heavily backed in the transfer window why does anyone refute this?
Surely levy doesn’t hold all the cards anyway, he is just a puppet for Enic, they are surely the ones who control the money and make the final decision?
Yes - the usual suspects
He ain’t a supporter Mrs P, he is nothing but a troll!
Yup. People tend to forget this. Daniel is not some undisputed dictator. He has a board that has to agree with him, and big papa Joe who can overturn him at any moment.
I agree wholeheartedly with you, Mrs P.
Levy & Pochettino seem to have a working relationship that's bearing fruit, with the word 'relationship' being key. Levy respects Poch's vision and Poch respects Levy's financial responsibilities. They work well together.
However, many times in the past we've seen the owner/manager relationship either break down, or not exist in the first place (at other clubs). We all know clubs where the owner is a dictator, or where short-term profit is more important than the club itself, or funds are not made available to the manager, resulting in him leaving or getting the sack.
When people get twitchy about Pochettino staying/leaving, it's because we know how fragile and brittle these relationships can be. The fears aren't exactly assuaged by Poch when he actually says he's leaving!
For what it's worth - I'm convinced that leaving is the last thing on his mind. He just gets thoroughly pissed off with repeated stupid questions from journalists, so stupid questions get a stupid answer. His mind is on higher things and he can't be bothered with their games.
I reckon he'll get money for players this summer - just hope his purchases continue to bear fruit.
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Have you actually watched the press conference though?
The one where they ask him about leaving and he sarcastically rolls his eyes and says "yes, if we win I leave, if we lose I leave"
He doesn't just want to speak to him in person, he says these things public because he wants pressure from the media and fans to weigh on Levy. He did the same thing at the end of last season with more cryptic comments about how we need to be brave and do things differently etc, this is not new. Whether it will work this time remains to be seen, if we spend big money it will be because Levy thinks it is right to do so, not because Poch put pressure on him.
Actually he is ... Joe owns over 85% of the shares in ENIC Group his holding company, Daniel owns most of the rest. ENIC Group owns ENIC International Limited which owns 85% of Spurs, Joe gives Daniel his complete authority. So sure there's a board at Spurs, but they answer to Daniel not the other way around.
Of course Joe could overrule him, but seeing as Daniel has turned Joe's 80m investment into close on 2 billion, why would he?
Hhmmm........
MP: "But because I know very well how this business works and we know very well that we need to operate in a different way - that doesn't mean to spend more or less money - when I say operate, it’s not only to say spend money or sell players or buy players.
"To operate differently is to be transparent and way ‘that is what we want’ for the next year, for the next five years, for the next ten years. And start to work hard."
What do you think these words actually mean?
Tottenham will now enjoy a higher than ever revenue stream, well technically we already are as Wembley pushed up matchday by 50%. EVERY form of revenue have increased from TV, commercial, match day etc.. as a result Tottenham will spend. How that revenue is divided up we don't know but on the player side of the business, it will be split between increase on wages and new players (probably those new players in a higher bracket of wages too??).
So much of the clubs resources have been channelled into the stadium, taken away from their day to day jobs aligned to making the club function, these resources can now be reappropriated back to their day to day roles. This is just a small example of us as a club having to do things differently than those we compete with, NO OTHER CLUB WAS BUILDING A STADIUM, all their resources were focused on delivering a team to play football at the weekend. We can now do the same.
We are now in a period where all this changes, where staff get to focus 100% on the jobs they were originally employed to and we employ a ton of new staff to bolster depleted numbers (eg Marketing dept). Just think of the role that Darren Baldwin (in charge of out pitches at stadium and Hotspur Way) has had to do, he's had to dedicate his time towards creating the world first sliding retractable pitch, that alone has taken him all around the world, then digging up pitches at the training centre to create tests, then setting up the pitch in the new stadium....Oh and by the way just create & landscape a garden for the new Lodge complex whilst you are at it. This type of thing has impacted almost everyone job at the club.
I'm going to stop here because this could go on and on for pages but we are in a very different place than where we were 2yrs ago, as a consequence we need a new plan. What got us here was a plan. Only a fucking idiot would assume that there isn't a new one (probably already well on its way).
Just press the disagree button mate the essay is so long winded.
He gets paid by the word, disagrees are worthless...
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Just keep ignoring what he actually says, then it wouldn't be so utterly tedious.
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I agree completely but I don't see that as an issue for Poch or the club. There's a recognition that we have almost gone as far as we can without a few key additions to move us closer to the top 2 clubs.
What do you think this means? Please explain
"It would be very naive to think we can continue to operate as we have done and that it will get us to the Champions League final and the top four every season when we're competing against projects like Liverpool or the Manchester clubs.
"If we are to expect the same from us as from Liverpool, the Manchester clubs and Chelsea, give me different tools to work with.
Its also due to the fact the club is run completely differently these days to say under Redknapp where we might get tasty bits of info thrown at us. The club do not tap up players publically, advertise transfer funds available. It's all done quietly but it leaves some fans with nothing else to think about.