Levy has raised Spurs fans expectations
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Being a Tottenham fan is never easy, some don't have the stomach for it, they bottle it and call for Levy out, placing common sense to one side and ignoring the realities of the football world that exists now.
The football landscape has changed, now success is achieved through money, those with the biggest incomes win everything, then come us, then come the rest, that's the reality. We finish in the higher echelons of the Premier League consistently without the financial resources to compete at the very top.
We will flirt, we will occasionally achieve, but we can't afford to just spend spend spend each season to keep up, not without increasing our income. Club supporters have higher expectations which is a result of the successful growth of the club over the last 10 years, while much of the competition, who were ahead of us, have gone backwards. Daniel Levy is aware of that.
“We have come far in the last decade – we have raised our expectations from a club aiming to be in the top half of the table, to competing in Europe each season – to the point at which we find ourselves disappointed if we don't make Champions League.”
That is progress, but not to some fans it seems, with a laughable protest planned.
Financial Fair Play rules prevent sugar daddies any more, no longer can an owner simply pump money in for players or wages. Bottom line is we have to increase our commercial income and we need a bigger stadium to do that. Building a stadium requires us to build collateral we can borrow against, which means having a well run club, exactly what we have under Levy.
The Premier League goes to a team with money, the FA Cup is usually won by a team with money and the League Cup is also won by money. It is 12 years since Chelsea, Manchester United or now Manchester City have not won the Premier League and then it was won by Arsenal, another club with money. You then have to go back to 1994-95 when Blackburn Rovers bought a side to win the title, where are they now.
Wigan and Portsmouth are the only two teams to have won the FA Cup outside the top 5 richest clubs in the country in the last 19 years. In the last 10 years Swansea City, Birmingham City and ourselves have won the Football League Cup, the rest have been won by the clubs with a vastly higher income again.
The football landscape has changed, now success is achieved through money, those with the biggest incomes win everything, then come us, then come the rest, that's the reality. We finish in the higher echelons of the Premier League consistently without the financial resources to compete at the very top.
We will flirt, we will occasionally achieve, but we can't afford to just spend spend spend each season to keep up, not without increasing our income. Club supporters have higher expectations which is a result of the successful growth of the club over the last 10 years, while much of the competition, who were ahead of us, have gone backwards. Daniel Levy is aware of that.
“We have come far in the last decade – we have raised our expectations from a club aiming to be in the top half of the table, to competing in Europe each season – to the point at which we find ourselves disappointed if we don't make Champions League.”
That is progress, but not to some fans it seems, with a laughable protest planned.
Financial Fair Play rules prevent sugar daddies any more, no longer can an owner simply pump money in for players or wages. Bottom line is we have to increase our commercial income and we need a bigger stadium to do that. Building a stadium requires us to build collateral we can borrow against, which means having a well run club, exactly what we have under Levy.
The Premier League goes to a team with money, the FA Cup is usually won by a team with money and the League Cup is also won by money. It is 12 years since Chelsea, Manchester United or now Manchester City have not won the Premier League and then it was won by Arsenal, another club with money. You then have to go back to 1994-95 when Blackburn Rovers bought a side to win the title, where are they now.
Wigan and Portsmouth are the only two teams to have won the FA Cup outside the top 5 richest clubs in the country in the last 19 years. In the last 10 years Swansea City, Birmingham City and ourselves have won the Football League Cup, the rest have been won by the clubs with a vastly higher income again.
20/20 Premier League titles
17/19 FA Cup wins
7/10 League Cups
44 out of 49 trophies won by sides with more income than us. The correlation between money and success can not possibly be in dispute, but that point is overlooked by the anti Levy brigade
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