
The demise of Daniel Levy has been well discussed, but here I take a moment to focus on how, in my own work life, outside of football, I’m working with a brand to launch a bar in Birmingham, Mason Newman’s Gunmakers Arms.
The message is a clear one: stay in your lane and always work for the greater good, not yourself.
Levy ended up damaging the brand he was working for because he wasn’t focused on ENIC; he was focused on himself. Hence, the internal review, hence he and Donna Marie Cullen were unceremoniously binned.
The entire show is here, where, as usual, we have a look at recent events at Tottenham, which includes the dreadful draw against Monaco, which itself caused many fans online to start weeping and wailing that Thomas Frank’s time was up.
Quite who these supporters are is beyond me; one can only presume they are the same ones who told us how Ange Postecoglou deserved a third season. One of the very serious perils of gauging opinion from people who, given the time difference, would ordinarily be asleep while Spurs play football, I guess.
Thomas Frank is a man who has come in, like all Tottenham managers before him, under Levy, heavily handicapped in virtually every department. The former Brentford boss has no quality in attack, a ‘dynamism-free’ midfield, bar Mohammed Kudus.
I understand that football has become quite slapstick, aided and abetted by infantile journalism and self-publicist bloggers who don’t genuinely have much to offer. All of which has culminated in more shouting, as opposed to cogent thought.
However, fans will have been pretty dumb not to see what Daniel’s bad buying and consistent failure to secure meaningful change management have caused. All those assuring us that Richarlison was ‘going to cook’ have been revealed to not only have trouble speaking English coherently, but they also know nothing about football.
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