I'm sure some of you have seen this but this is astounding from Hugo Lloris...
https://x.com/chriscowlin/status/1854478140828954685?s=46
Hugo Lloris on Daniel Levy and thr Champions League final: "We do all have one engraved memory, though. Four days before the final, Daniel Levy called us all together to announce that, with the support of a sponsor, we would each receive a luxury aviator watch from the club. At first, we were excited to see the elegant boxes. Then we opened them and discovered that he’d had the back of each timepiece engraved with the player’s name and ‘Champions League Finalist 2019’. ‘Finalist.’ Who does such a thing at a moment like this? I still haven’t got over it, and I’m not alone. If we’d won, he wouldn’t have asked for the watches back to have ‘Winner’ engraved instead.
"I have considerable respect and esteem for the man and all he has done for the club as chairman – I got to know him – but there are things he is simply not sensitive to. As magnificent as the watch is, I have never worn it. I would have preferred there to be nothing on it. With an engraving like that, Levy couldn’t have been surprised if we had been 1–0 down after a couple of minutes: so it was written.
"At the post-match reception at the hotel, I had the impression that some people from the club and certain players were not sufficiently despondent at having lost. I would have liked people to come up to me and say, ‘Don’t worry, Hugo. Never again. We’ll give you the means for a comeback.’ But when I returned to my room on the night of the final, I think I had the same feeling as Mauricio and Harry: does the club really want to win? Real Madrid would never have celebrated a lost final, and we shouldn’t have either."
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He's almost certainly on the spectrum and obviously there's no shame in that but it speaks to the lack of ambition both from the club as a whole and the owner himself, which I suspected when I wrote this article a few weeks back https://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/464431. There's taking the pressure off and then there's expecting to lose. It's completely mental. It also alludes to a real lack of desire to create tangible success. It's further confirmed my suspicions about Levy's ambitions, or lack thereof. When you hear it from former players, particularly loyal, long-serving captains, there's nowhere else to turn for the Levy apologists.
Daniel Levy
posted 20 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by Bãleș left boot (U22081)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
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comment by Bãleș left boot (U22081)
posted 38 minutes ago
He clearly thought that he was doing something nice and inspirational for the players, so I can't knock him too hard for that.
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I think that's almost certainly true and actually the root cause of why we've not won anything. He tries hard all the time to do better but he just doesn't get it. Needs to not be involved with the football team at all.
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Well, you both glossed over a crucial bit in the OP 'with the support of a sponsor'.
So did the sponsor just do it?
Did they ask, get the go ahead but the detail was not thought through?
Was Levy in a difficult position having said yes, not working out that detail (if he even knew it would be engraved) and it would have been worse to upset the sponsor?
Is the implication the club weren't doing anything else - I assume the players were on a bonus that dwarfed the watch that they could easily afford in any case?
A club as wealthy as Spurs should have concierges or similar directly looking after the happiness of their highly paid key employees - where does it all fall down or do they have their hands tied?
Don't disbelieve Lloris but there always more to it & would he been happier without it?
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Lot of assumptions there and questions we can't possibly answer as fans. We've not glossed over anything
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I made no assumptions, just throwing out possibilities but I get that you can't stand him. Yeah, you can't possibly know the details as fans but gloss over what you do know to castigate him.
posted 20 hours, 26 minutes ago
I've always thought there was something very odd about that game.
My theory has always been that the despicable decision not to start Lucas p1ssed the majority of the team off and as a result they started the match in the wrong frame of mind which they couldn't recover from.
It was incredible that having such character and boucebackability throughout the competition we went down with such a whimper in the final.
posted 20 hours, 24 minutes ago
I assume the players were on a bonus that dwarfed the watch that they could easily afford in any case?
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C'mon man. If you want to debate at least do it honestly
posted 19 hours, 49 minutes ago
comment by Brother (U20548)
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comment by Hengy (U9129)
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comment by Bãleș left boot (U22081)
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comment by Hengy (U9129)
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comment by Bãleș left boot (U22081)
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comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 26 seconds ago
Boss buys employees a gift shocker
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Not what happened
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What happened then?
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A sponsor gifted watches for the players
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Boss in collaboration with sponsor gifts personalised watches shocker
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That's a catchy headline
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And then the usual bed wetters twist the truth into their own agenda.
As for Hugo, selling a book after upteen years of abject failure as Captain of our club. Wonder if he talks about his drink habit and all the soft goals he let it for us?
posted 18 hours, 32 minutes ago
I often wonder what would have happened had we won that night in Madrid
It’s crazy that we were only 90 minutes from being European champions. Would levy have altered his strategy? Would we have kicked on?
Probably not, in my heart I know levy would have thought it was job done and he’d have been as tight at ever
posted 18 hours, 9 minutes ago
comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 22 minutes ago
I often wonder what would have happened had we won that night in Madrid
It’s crazy that we were only 90 minutes from being European champions. Would levy have altered his strategy? Would we have kicked on?
Probably not, in my heart I know levy would have thought it was job done and he’d have been as tight at ever
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Tight? Havent we been one of the highest spenders in Europe since that final?
posted 15 hours, 50 minutes ago
Yep, Levy has created a losers mentality at Spurs over many years.
The bloke is a massive problem for the fans of the football team.
Unfortunately, some fans can not see the negative effect or the problem with the way THFC is run.
Levy out.
posted 15 hours, 34 minutes ago
So another poor footballing decision from Levy to add to the collection. He is not a football guy clearly but we already knew that. He's like a nerd at a rave.
Keep him as much away from football matters as we can.
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
Yet another big match where Kane vanished completely. Had he actually turned up, then Spurs may have won. Having said that had he played in the semi, doubtful Spurs would have even reached the final.
Good player for Spurs, but never ever turned up when it really mattered.
posted 1 hour, 28 minutes ago
comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 26 minutes ago
Yet another big match where Kane vanished completely. Had he actually turned up, then Spurs may have won. Having said that had he played in the semi, doubtful Spurs would have even reached the final.
Good player for Spurs, but never ever turned up when it really mattered.
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Wasn't he rushed back from injury? Poch as much to blame for starting him and Levy as much to blame for not adding more quality to the team so we weren't so reliant on Kane.
I guess nobody turns up for Spurs when it matters (not that other games aren't important as well) but Kane at least turned up for more games than most.