.....and it's not Nuno.
The person responsible for the on-field decline and current shambles is undoubtedly Daniel Levy.
Ironically, I do believe that he supports the club and I do believe that losing to Arsenal yesterday will have hurt him almost as much as it hurt us (despite the revenues earned from the AJ fight the night before)….but he just can’t seem to avoid making extremely bad decision after extremely bad decision.
I’m not gonna list the catalogue of bad decisions that he’s made in recent times, because we all know what they are. However, the culmination of his stewardship of the club is that we now have a squad that is unbalanced and ill equipped for the even a top 6 challenge (let alone top 4) and we have a manager that has been thrust into a job that he is not “qualified" for and we seriously look destined for a bottom half PL position (if not worse).
Levy won’t resign of course, or encourage Joe Lewis to sell the club, so we’re stuck with him (and ENIC) unfortunately.
In order to repair some of the damage he has caused and to arrest the startling downward spiral that we’re in, he needs act decisively. If he hasn’t been doing so already, he should start sounding out some bright progressive managers that have a CV that qualifies them for managing Spurs. He needs to stop thinking about the costs involved in getting the right man….and just get him. It might be that we’ll need to wait until December, but he should move heaven and earth to get it done sooner. Basically, he should do now what he should have done in the summer.
The thing that astonishes me about Levy is that despite being a numbers man who is driven by “profit" and getting the best deal, he doesn’t seem to realise that going for the cheaper option each time will not result in improved finances and profit – quite the opposite! We’ve lost Champions League revenue. We’ve lost Europa League revenue and the further down the league we finish, the less revenue we get from the PL too.
I feel really sorry for Nuno. I really wanted it to work out well for him (and us). But yesterday was the final straw for me. It was proof positive that he’s out of his depth.
There's only one person to blame...
posted on 27/9/21
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 55 seconds ago
I'm not relinquishing responsibility for Levy here but why does Paratici come away scott-free? Sure, every big footballing decision can be pointed to the very top eventually but whilst Levy hired Paratici, it was Paratici himself that pushed massively for Nuno, a more defensive coach, ripping up the club manifesto in the process. Before him he wanted Gattuso. That's the measure of the kind of person he wants.
Then there's his signings. It would be remiss to judge this early on but Royal looks pretty ordinary to me whilst the one we turned down in Tomiyasu is making people sit up and take notice. Tim Vickery said much the same about Royal when we signed him. As the South American football expert, he knows his onions and just couldn't see the fascination with the player.
Romero has barely played and doesn't seem to be trusted over two of the worst centre backs our club has ever known. He cost us over £50m. Jesus!!!!!
Gil looks like he might be decent but Lamela plus 25m? I'm expecting a starter for that money.
I know Levy made the decision to hire Paratici but it was Paratici himself that was pushing Levy to move away from the more progressive managers like Potter, and go more pragmatic.
The buck stops with Levy but the path we're on now is very much the fault of Paratici.
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Many people stated the fact that paratici had zero experience of changing an entire squad especially with young players and that he was a defensive minded dof
Levy still hired him.
posted on 27/9/21
Yea, Levy takes the blame for hiring both Paratici and Nuno.
Both men go completely against his DNA comments. It's just gross incompetence. We're most likely stuck with this shiiite for a while. No doubt Nuno will be the first fall guy.
Then Levy either trusts Paratici again and we end up with another dull negative manager or he actually overrules him and gets what we need but in doing so undermines Paratici.
Another fine mess made by our Daniel.
posted on 27/9/21
As I said, Levy is just as much to blame but there seemed very little in the way of finger pointing in Paratici's direction and he was the one that set us on this path with this manager.
Levy is an idiot. Anyone who watched the doc can see that. As a businessman, there's little better but as a football man, he's an idiot. He needs to be handled in the same way a terrible boss often is. You listen to what he has to say and you do the opposite and get results. I've had bosses just like that. You wonder how they got there but you're stuck with them. The best you can do is manage upwards. The same applies here but every now and then, another idiot will sit just below the original idiot. The blind will lead the blind. When that happens, catastrophic decisions get made. Prior to this, I think Hitchen was managing Levy upwards. He's been pushed aside and now we've got the two idiots making every single football decision and ballsing it all up.
posted on 27/9/21
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
I'm not relinquishing responsibility for Levy here but why does Paratici come away scott-free? Sure, every big footballing decision can be pointed to the very top eventually but whilst Levy hired Paratici, it was Paratici himself that pushed massively for Nuno, a more defensive coach, ripping up the club manifesto in the process. Before him he wanted Gattuso. That's the measure of the kind of person he wants.
Then there's his signings. It would be remiss to judge this early on but Royal looks pretty ordinary to me whilst the one we turned down in Tomiyasu is making people sit up and take notice. Tim Vickery said much the same about Royal when we signed him. As the South American football expert, he knows his onions and just couldn't see the fascination with the player.
Romero has barely played and doesn't seem to be trusted over two of the worst centre backs our club has ever known. He cost us over £50m. Jesus!!!!!
Gil looks like he might be decent but Lamela plus 25m? I'm expecting a starter for that money.
I know Levy made the decision to hire Paratici but it was Paratici himself that was pushing Levy to move away from the more progressive managers like Potter, and go more pragmatic.
The buck stops with Levy but the path we're on now is very much the fault of Paratici.
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I seriously dunno why you hired him, wasn't even the best DoF in Italy, let alone Europe, and didn't fit you at all. Igli Tare (Lazio's DoF) would've been a much better choice.
Maybe he was the only one up for the gig, but if Levy was reeled in by the superficial "he was at Juventus for 10 years, so he must be the best" he's a fool
posted on 27/9/21
comment by Devil (U6522)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
I'm not relinquishing responsibility for Levy here but why does Paratici come away scott-free? Sure, every big footballing decision can be pointed to the very top eventually but whilst Levy hired Paratici, it was Paratici himself that pushed massively for Nuno, a more defensive coach, ripping up the club manifesto in the process. Before him he wanted Gattuso. That's the measure of the kind of person he wants.
Then there's his signings. It would be remiss to judge this early on but Royal looks pretty ordinary to me whilst the one we turned down in Tomiyasu is making people sit up and take notice. Tim Vickery said much the same about Royal when we signed him. As the South American football expert, he knows his onions and just couldn't see the fascination with the player.
Romero has barely played and doesn't seem to be trusted over two of the worst centre backs our club has ever known. He cost us over £50m. Jesus!!!!!
Gil looks like he might be decent but Lamela plus 25m? I'm expecting a starter for that money.
I know Levy made the decision to hire Paratici but it was Paratici himself that was pushing Levy to move away from the more progressive managers like Potter, and go more pragmatic.
The buck stops with Levy but the path we're on now is very much the fault of Paratici.
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I seriously dunno why you hired him, wasn't even the best DoF in Italy, let alone Europe, and didn't fit you at all. Igli Tare (Lazio's DoF) would've been a much better choice.
Maybe he was the only one up for the gig, but if Levy was reeled in by the superficial "he was at Juventus for 10 years, so he must be the best" he's a fool
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Well that same logic was basically why we went for Jose
posted on 27/9/21
If you want Levy out then matches and club merchandise should be boycotted and only then your owners might act.
Look at Arsenal fans for example, moaned about and protested against Wenger for years but they didn't get their way until they started hitting Kroenke in his pocket.
posted on 27/9/21
comment by Anne Ziety (U22412)
posted 5 seconds ago
If you want Levy out then matches and club merchandise should be boycotted and only then your owners might act.
Look at Arsenal fans for example, moaned about and protested against Wenger for years but they didn't get their way until they started hitting Kroenke in his pocket.
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True, but they have also complained and had protests about their owners, with little effect. Kronke still owns Arsenal.
Our problem is the same, it's easy enough to apply sustained pressure to get rid of a manager, but no so easy (and probably impossible) to get rid of an owner. See Newcastle as another example.
posted on 27/9/21
We stuck with Levy. Nobody is buying this club.
posted on 27/9/21
It's the constant flip-flopping that's the problem. Take Brighton, for example. Now it won't be long before Potter is snapped up by a bigger club but Brighton will be prepared for it. They'll probably already have a shortlist in place to cover that eventuality. After Hughton they ripped everything up and committed to an identity, for which they can thank Paul Barber for moulding. From there, it then makes recruitment so much easier. It narrows your pool of managers and players alike. Any new manager coming in after Potter will just continue the progressive style as that's what the club is now. It takes time and it can go wrong. In the first season under Potter, Brighton could have gone down but even that wouldn't have derailed their process. Now look at them. They weathered the storm and sit comfortably in the top 6.
Identity is everything in football. If you haven't got it as a club, you'll always fail. Only a club in turmoil can go from Poch as manager with a squad that suit his style to a Jose and expect him to be able to make it work. It's like going from Pep to Allardyce or Wenger to Hodgson. It just doesn't work. Everyone else saw it. It's probably part of the reason why Rodgers turned us down. We're not an attractive proposition anymore. We're the poisoned chalice the England job used to be.
posted on 27/9/21
Nuno also to blame for tactics, formation& team selection