Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is “not a football
man”, according to former Spurs player and coach Clive Allen.
Nine managers have left Spurs since Levy took over
in 2001, the most recent being Tim Sherwood, who was sacked on Tuesday after five
months in charge.
Allen, 52, described Levy as an “incredible”
businessman but criticised his football-related decisions.
I think Allen has been kind, time and time again
Levy has shown himself to be utterly clueless when you look at the way
Tottenham is run, and if he is this ‘incredible businessman’ then surely after
13 years he’d have learned from his mistakes but clearly not.
Since Levy took over Tottenham have finished in the
top four twice which is pitiful considering the money they’ve spent, and yet
the reason why is so obvious.
Levy doesn’t let the manager sign the players they
want instead he insists on letting a director of football sign players and then
expects the manager to coach a bunch of players he didn’t even want.
Now that Sherwood has been sacked and there’s talk
of all the potential candidates that could come in, if you were one of them why
would you want the job? Where’s the incentive? You come in invariably your best
player gets sold and you have no say over what to do with the money and are
expected to finish in the top four straight away otherwise your sacked.
That sounds like a set-up put in place by an ‘incredible
businessman’, not!
Sadly Levy is like a lot of chairman in football he
has more money than sense.
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