Tottenham Fan 'Thanks Levy' Shocker
The aftermath of this transfer window has seen the baby well and truly thrown out with the bathwater. From season tickets being unrenewed as the last vestages of faith evapourated, to accounts on forums being suspended as tempers frayed and reason turned to unbridled teeth nashing.
Three games in and already two Premiership clubs have imploded. Cave In Keegan has splashed it all over the press he had to go and Curbs has hit the kerb. Geordies are considering an insurrection and threats to boycott the Bolton game have been made.
Manchester City fans were dancing in the streets as their new owners produced Liberia's Deficit from beneath their sheets. They're parking camels where the taxi's used to be, but how long will their interest in City actually last?
East Stand Danny emailed this over last night and it's well worth a read. We need as fans to move on. Me included. All this talk of kidnapping and opportunities lost, bungled or otherwise are all well and good, but we here now, been here before and we are in deep.
WINDOW ON THE WORLD
I like most other Spurs fans, watched with baited breath as the summer transfer window opened - swept in an age of rumours, gossip, enthusiasm, pessimism, optimism, disappointment, and 60,000 online managers – then it closed. Leaving us Spurs fans well and truly split…. Massively split. Super split. Hadjuk split.
Whilst some of us have a huge sense of confidence in the squad that we’ve put together in this time and the way in which our management team have conducted certain business, others (and I believe the archaic old fashioned pessimistic types) seem to view the way in which we’ve conducted our business this summer to be negative, small club minded and ultimately a failure on all levels.
Before I tell you more… before you all say… who’s this nugget? I am dreadfully disappointed with our striking options, especially the message we’ve sent out in taking Campbell on loan without a fee agreed in the event that the talented boy is a success. I think Pav-lechanmanwinko will be a fab addition to our options, and hope Darren Bent will turn in to the striker with the prowess we all saw in both of his pre-seasons, and more importantly, the finish that bled hope in the result against Chelski.
’m here to defend Levy. (GASP, SHOCK HORROR)
The same people I’ve called archaic are the same people that last year stood in the stands, screaming in disbelief at the treatment of Martin Jol, how on earth could we have done this? What benefit would it have to our club? The same people I stood at Wembley with later that year, and chanted Juande’s name… a new belief that the right man for the job was in his seat. The simple fact is, we are in a ruthless ruthless business, and our chairman has at times needed to be full of that… Ruthlessness. The time was right, the right man was there… and whilst we all couldn’t see its benefit, he went and did it…. And my oh my oh my, what a great decision it was.
Why’ve I mentioned that? That’s all in the past, and lets judge him on his current performance. I believe its been admirable, ballsy, respectful of our faithful, and honest. At the same time, he’s stood toe to toe with United, that Scottish lemon… and I believe he’s been the victor.
Ok, lets do that….. so we kicked off the summer with the acquisition of Modric, a player that we would’ve struggled to get near had we waited til after the summer…. Well done Mr Levy, a great signing.
We then got Dos Santos… I almost creamed. What a talent. What a prospect. And what a fabulous price. Well done Mr Levy.
Bentley… oh David Bentley…. I have an affection for this players ability that is deep, and sincere… this boys a player, and we got him at a price that Blackburn must retch at. We held out, and we got our man. Not sure about that badge kissing stuff David – we don’t need to know that – just bang a goal or two in, and feed that pavlyunani til he’s filled to the brim. Well done Mr Levy.
I’ve already spoken about Pavlyugecko. I’m not gonna say a word – you wait and see. ‘He’ll be like Rebrov he will’ – oh would you shut up. He’s nothing like Rebrov… first of all, he doesn’t look like he’s just come off a yellow bus. He does look a bit like Cameron Diaz though… anyone noticed that?
Then there were the Robbie Keane, and Berbatov situations. Issues that pulled apart the hearts of all of us. Lets get this straight, from the off… we were never going to be able to keep either of them. As our chairman told us, early, respectfully and honestly.. they just didn’t want to be there, their heads were turned, they were out the door, and there was nothing that could be done, apart from broker the best deals for OUR club. Yes, OUR CLUB.
So, along came Liverpool…. 20m, yes please thank you very much, good night, god bless. Robbies been great at times for spurs – but 20 million is a lot of money for a player like him. Robbie Keanes are ten to a dozen… you might not want to hear it, because this is a man who has given us great times, but he’s not worth that. Him, along with the likes of Robbo were helping our club go stale. Controlling the dressing, creating unrest…. If Robbie was such an Ambassador, what happened with his strops last year when the manager made decisions? He behaved like Robbo did… Poor me, poor me….
Then theres Berbatov – he was gone last year.. his head away from spurs, thinking about which city centre he’s gonna hang around smoking fags next. Levy held out, long and hard… did he get bullied? No. He waited, and waited, prepared to let the guy sit in the stands…. Until old Trafford could bare it no longer…. 30.75 thanks. Take him. The players were fed up of him, we needed shot of him… simple.
I already mentioned im not happy with the Campbell situation…. But, and it’s a big BUT… wouldn’t it have been silly to do another Rasiak? So we couldn’t get the right deals on other targets… it happens, even at Chelski over Robinho. What we have done, is got a decent option in, whilst we go about working on new deals for permanent players.
IN ALL OF THIS – my exemplifying comfort comes from Levy running our club. We’ve signed big players, we’ve kept up with the Big guns in the market… we’ve hardly spent a penny as we’ve cleaned out our closet of players that just aren’t gonna crack it. We have a manger that oozes a winning mentality, one that we can trust, one that every player we’ve signed has mentioned. Man City have just become the new Chelsea, and in the way our club is run financially, we have no fear about standing in the same arena… Our club is being run like a business at the right time, and a football club at others. He’s got the fans in mind. He is one.
Well done Mr Levy.
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Thank God. Some sense at last. I've been put off these sites since the close of the window. We are looking in great shape to move on.
Just one more thing, he was also prepared to stand toe to toe with old red nose, prepared to let bebatov rot if thats what his manager wanted. In the end juande didnt want the disruptive influence to linger on so he made the decision and Levy backed him. Levy or Ashley, i know which chairman id rather have!!
COYS!
Agree with the article wholeheartedly.
On another subject, there is a rumour (obvious bull poo) that Lennon is being linked with the mighty Real Madrid to replace Robinho.
My question is.. Given our squad and with Bentley on the right would we really be bothered if they offered us say £8m for him?
I like the lad and would never push him out but I cant see him getting that many starts this year and the money could be spent elsewhere.
Any thoughts?
Here here it's not all doom and gloom.Now Mr Levy get Gus in the office and pay him what he wants he is so much more than just a no.2 this could be our biggest deal this year.Please don't let him go the toon and cock himself up.COYS
I have to say, the article is looking at the wood and not the trees. A lot of sound points have been made and most certaintly, "the lets move on now" point. Lots of things hurt this Summer, I feel terriblt let down by Berbatov & Keane, I am less than optimistic about Bent and who knows how the new Ruski will turn out. But overall, yes, the wood is not in too bad a shape and a string of few wins will get everyone buzzing and confidence up there. So, yeah lets move and get behind them.
As for Levy, the jury is still out imo, time will tell and results will decide, how he has performed.
Check out the ITK in the responses to this article:
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Pretty interesting, true or not?
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Spot on... nothing else to be said on the matter.
Good work finding that Harry!
You seem to be talking (writing) a lot of sense here Harry, I think Pav and Bent will form a winning partnership and with the wealth of talent we have in midfield, hopefully feeding these strikers appetite for decent balls will be commonplace....time will tell...