14 Sep 2012 21:32:10
THFC4EVER, no need to apologise pal. I get where your coming from with dodgy foreign owners but Joe Lewis has let us down imo. He could have put his hand in his pocket and splashed out, we needed a striker for years. Now we have the Financial fair play coming in so this wont be an option (although a few teams are cheating these rules already with massive overinflated naming rights deals eg) . We have been one or two players away from a special team but instead of buying we dithered. Lewis is one of the wealthiest owners yet he hardly spends a penny.
We are a very well run club but its been frustrating and i believe we missed a chance from not taking a gamble and buying those players we needed. I also think Levy is taking the piss out of us with these last day of the transfer window bids ie Aguero, Llorente, Moutinho.
spurs guvnor
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Just playing devils advocate to some extent here, but Joe Lewis bought a business why should he reach into his pockets for his hard earned cash to put into a profitable business just because some unamed masses want him to? He may not be a Spurs fan as such why should he throw away millions just because he's rich?
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Jimbo, you make a fair point. When you strip everything down to the basics, Its just business, thats all.
Im bound to think tho that no businessman would go into Football ownership for a profit unless they were mentally unstable or business people so astute that they could also extract water from stones.
Joe Lewis is as close to the latter as ive seen in a chairman
Super Y*d
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Like I said in an earlier post, ENIC is an investment company. It's not like a Dave Whelan situation where the Chairman will do anything he can to help the club. Lewis doesn't want any money spent on tottenham that we haven't earned, so that he can sell for a profit in a few years with the new stadium. He doesn't mean to hurt us of course, and if we're in serious trouble I'm sure he'd right the ship, but he leaves the day-to-day running of the club to Levy with the basis get them consistently challenging for europe and don't spend outside our means
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14 Sep 2012 15:25:00
Great article for all ur spurs fans
It may seem that The Premier League Owl is becoming a site almost solely dedicated to reporting the character assassination the media is trying to perform on Andre Villas-Boas, but it's a perfect example of the way the press work in England and deserves attention.
The headline of Steven Howard's article in The Sun this morning:
˜AVB can't afford to lose at Reading.'
And the opening paragraphs:
˜A TRIP to Reading at this stage of the season shouldn't normally be of too much concern to a team that finished fourth last season.
But for Tottenham fans it could be something of an ordeal.
Especially those who seemed supremely unconcerned at the dismissal of Harry Redknapp at the end of last season.
For defeat at Reading tomorrow for a team with lots of new names but precious little time in which to gel will put Andre Villas-Boas under real pressure.'
Sorry Steven, but we'll have to stop you there “ the only pressure that exists is coming from the furnace of rubbish that writers like yourself insist on printing. As you so helpfully point out, albeit in a way that contradicts your entire stance, this is a Tottenham side with ˜lots of new names and precious little time to gel'.
This is not about Daniel Levy's evaluation of the job his manager is doing, it's about the press wanting Levy to regret sacking their mate ˜Arry. And anyway, nobody is ˜evaluating' anything after three games of a Premier League season.
This has got so petty and so personal, and above everything else, deeply unprofessional. There's an obvious difference between reporting stories and writing inflammatory content designed to present a wholly inaccurate portrait of events, and Howard's article “ like so very many we've seen recently “ is firmly in the latter bracket.
˜Other things AVB said when walking into Spurs for the first time also set alarm bells ringing.
That he wasn't there to restore his reputation but to put Spurs back on track.'
Yeah, only he didn't actually say that, did he? When Villas-Boas was given the job, he spoke of putting ˜Spurs back on track with titles'. I know it's just two words, and reporting them accurately would have left a bit of a hole in the article's logic, but what can we say, pedantry is alive and well.
You see, this isn't just wilful misinterpretation anymore, it's the bending of comments and the adjustment of facts to fit in with a particular angle. It's day-after-day of fiction, and it's predicated on nothing more than a blind loyalty to ˜one of their own' who, let it not be forgotten, embarrassed the club's fanbase in the second half of last season with a humiliating collapse in form and a series of increasingly inept performances.
The press are embarrassingly desperate to see Villas-Boas fail.
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Well said !
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I agree 100%. I read an article saying AVB would be crucified for leaving a keeper of lloris's quality,and expense, on the bench thus causing a rift between the player and AVB.
The self same article, further on, also claimed that AVB would be crucified, again, for benching friedel after his Norwich performance and then went on about how tactically inept AVB would be for doing such a thing and causing 'rifts' in our squad.
The press, and radio, are indeed out to get AVB, stirring it all up, ready for the crash.
AVB, could well be the England manager, as the press are treating him the same way as who ever is England boss.
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Absolutely spot on mate, things will never change and they have wanted AVB to fail since day 1
I'm the 1st to admit I was dissapointed with the result in the opening 2 matches but there were positives to take from both games and I sincerely believe given time AVB will prove his worth.
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Lol avb is a joke like your team hope he takes you down
real north london team
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These gooners make me sick.
So hypocritical.
When your team is sh.t, you don't say a word. When your team gets a few points, you start gobbling off
Good time fans, the lot of ya.
If you can't make a sensible comment, however you own team is playing, then just f.ck off back to your own boring quiet site (just like your stadium) and leave real football fans alone to discuss real football matters.
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Gooner, you are a hypocrite.
I bet you was first in the que screaming for wenger to go last season.
If you can only post comments during your good times, then don't bother posting.
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