Daniel Levy has been at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur for over two decades now.
Under his watch, the club has only managed to win one trophy – the League Cup in 2008 – and it’s a stick people continue to beat him with.
Tottenham have tried many different characters with varying styles in their dugout in order to change their fortunes around.
From the outspoken and trophy-winning coach Jose Mourinho to the unforgettable reign of Andre Villas-Boas.
Regardless of what they have brought to the table, and if they have worked with a prime Harry Kane or prime Gareth Bale, it just hasn’t delivered on-field success.
But away from the pitch, not many can argue that Tottenham are one of the best in the business, even Gary Neville acknowledged that Manchester City are probably only better.
For a lot of Spurs fans, whilst they appreciate all of that, they would prefer trophies and that success to translate onto the pitch.
Only time will tell if that happens under the guidance of Ange Postecoglou, who recently came out and stated: ‘We aren’t banks, we are football clubs. We aren’t financial institutions. I don’t get measured by the balance sheet at the end of the year, it’s about what they do on the field of play.’
Simon Jordan stated that the recently-appointed Spurs boss ‘doesn’t make as much sense as he likes to think he does’, as he told talkSPORT.
The former Crystal Palace owner, who is close friends with Daniel Levy, also shared a conversation he recently had with the Spurs chairman.
Whilst Jordan was keen to point out to Levy that he has a bank balance and trophy cabinet that differ in huge ways, he also shared that the 62-year-old wants to ‘gentrified Tottenham beyond all recognition’, which includes building hotels.
Daniel Levy at Tottenham
“I think he (Postecoglou) is actually saying his ambitions are to win things and not to participate in things,” said Jordan. “He said that at the beginning of the season. He said ‘there is no glass ceiling. I want to get as high as I can and win things’
“The finances and the opportunity to be better are inextricably indexed. You get into the Champions League, and you get over £100 million if you win it. You have got broadcast opportunities and you have a whole raft of opportunities. You buy better players and you keep on going around that circle until you eventually land on that table until you win something, so I don’t think he (Postecoglou) makes as much sense as he likes to think he does.
“It’s similar logic for Liverpool, but the problem is about how you spend the money. Liverpool didn’t spend big money, they spent Coutinho money and they spent it wisely. Whereas Spurs spent Bale’s money under AVB poorly.
“So, this argument that Daniel Levy hasn’t done the things he should have done will always be there. I said to him the other day, ‘you have a bank balance full of it and a trophy cabinet that’s empty’. He will always have that until they win something.
“Postecoglou and Levy, he is trying to raise some more money. It tells me he wants to build other things. He has seen a revenue model and he wants to build hotels and he tells me he wants to build other things. He wants to gentrify Tottenham beyond all recognition.”
Is Ange Postecoglou the man to start Tottenham’s trophy success?
It’s well and good Postecoglou demanding nothing but the highest of orders, but you still have to deliver it on the field of play.
At the end of the day, under his stewardship, they got knocked out of the League Cup and the FA Cup this season.
Yes, the performances in the Premier League have been outstanding, with Champions League football in their hands and it looks likely that it will return to Hotspur Way.
Postecoglou has talked the talk, but so did Antonio Conte, yet that landed him out of the door and, just like Mourinho, Spurs was the first club he failed to win a trophy at.
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