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Originally Posted by Bagor
No. It's a matter of spending and Levy doesn't like to do it.
They had a very good team a few seasons back where a couple of signings could have kept their momentum at the top of the pack. Instead he cheaped out lacking the foresight to see that to compete in Europe and the league was a squad game.
You say 2 years. Let's do 4. I estimate that they've probably shelled out ~ 140M UK Sterling over those 4 seasons for a miserable 35/season at a time when the other teams were weak and the opportunity was there for them to win trophies.
He doesn't get the fan aspect. He's detached from them. Last night was prime example. Spurs fans paid by far the most of any supporter returning to stadiums after a year. Burnley, in contrast, I believe let theirs in free.
And what does Levy have them do at 60 quid a ticket? Have them sit way up on the upper tiers detached from the action in order to maintain his lower tier advertising. On the same day that he pens a letter to them saying that they have lost sight of what's in their DNA.
Levy for me has always been one of the main issues holding Spurs back unless you're looking at net spend trophies. I honestly don't believe he's totally invested in winning. Seems like a great businessman but not that great regarding the football side of things.
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Pains me to agree with you. Having the fans pay that much and to sit that far up was just deplorable.
I think that my frustration lies in the recruiting in general. the year we sold Walker to City there was talk of us getting Sancho...but City wouldn't sell to us. Then we have names like Maddison, Ziyech, Fernandes, Grealish, and the list just goes on and on that we were apparently in on at one point and didn't close the deal. I'm sure there are more that just escape me right now...but it's just the usual penny pinching and sticking with the also-ran to save a few bucks.