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Big Vision vs Little Vision


An entrepreneur thinks differently than the ordinary fan in the street.

Take me, I have a vision. 

That vision involves giving hundreds of millions to charitable causes involving dogs, training guide dogs, training community welfare dogs, working with organizations on dog welfare like the RSPCA in the UK, diabetic dogs etc.

For the fan in the street that dream would be just a dream, they do nothing about it because the challenge is too big for them.

I, however, work out how it can be achieved, starting with nothing.

That then, becomes my plan, not just my vision, everything I therefore do is working toward the culmination of that plan, that vision.

There are milestones along the way.

There are elements that will fail.

There are elements that will set me back.

But I know, where I'm going thus adjustments get made that all work toward that long-term objective.

Daniel Levy has a long-term objective for Spurs.

As stated, to rival Real Madrid and Barcelona, both off the field and on the field.

That is ALL the chairman and board measure against.

EVERYTHING being done is with that aim in mind.

They are on a journey.

A fan is not on a journey.

A fan looks season to season to win a trophy.

That is their vision.

They assume a club has their vision, it doesn't and never will, as there is a bigger picture.

Now that is not to say that the club do not want to win trophies every season, indeed they do, BUT the club has to be financially in the position to be able to do that, currently WITHOUT circumventing the Financial Fair Play rules as other Arab owners have done.

You can tell from their pieces that the mental limitations of our journalists can't see and understand the difference between a club journey to a vision and a mere fan's vision.

Journalists are only fans, employees who lack the balls to achieve anything bigger.

Will my vision succeed?

Well yes, over time, with perseverance, with setbacks but always driving towards that distant vision.

The same with Spurs.

Now, if I wish to generate hundreds of millions in the long term, I do not chase money now.

You see, everything has to be geared towards the end goal, to putting everything in place to be able to generate it.

It takes a marketing plan, it takes many plans for various aspects.

What I can't afford to happen, is to chase money now because that merely deflects from the eventual goal.

That takes me down a different path.

That has me driving down the wrong country lane and taking my energies and focus away from the main road I need to be on.

It takes me a wrong route that has a financial ceiling.

I'm suddenly going after a different goal, the wrong goal, a personal goal for money rather than a goal to give hundreds of millions to charity.

Daniel Levy and the board are chasing my goal, fans are chasing their own personal financial wealth goal.

Do you see what I'm saying?

Daniel Levy is driving down a main road, fans want him to turn off to have a pint in the pub at the end of a country lane.

That country lane doesn't get the club to where it wants to be, yet every fan, every fan, would welcome Spurs being where Spurs (Daniel Levy, ENIC and the board) want it to be.

Fans are still chasing a trophy, not chasing the bigger picture that brings an abundance of trophies.

Fans want to settle for less, an entrepreneur, a winning mentality, doesn't settle for less.

COYS

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4 comments

  1. Thanks for your thoughts. I always enjoy reading them as you take the long view. However, I wonder if Daniel Levy / ENIC is focused on maximizing income or maximizing team performance? It costs more to win than finish 4th as you need to invest in better and more players to get to the top, but you do not generate a similar increase in income beyond what you would generate coming 4th with cup semi-finals. In fact, most champions lose money (outside of the growth in the overall value of the team). My worry is that Spurs are designed to finish 3rd or 4th and if we win a cup, great. Champions league will keep the players and coaches coming and build enough hope to fill the stands. This is, of course, still a great achievement - just ask Everton fans - and it keeps Spurs among the best teams in the world. But, my sense is that winning requires some level of unrealistic spending - or tremendous luck in finding the under valued players who blossom - to get to the top. I do not see Le…
    • You have fallen into the trap of assuming on the field success brings in the money to continue to achieve it, it doesn't. That ONLY comes from the financial infrastructure off the field. That is guaranteed income and you build on guaranteed income, you don't build on hopeful income or one year income.
      Daniel Levy and ENIC are driving don the main road to the 20 pubs, going for the one pub is a dead end.
    • I was trying to suggest that on field success brings in money but only to a point. Spurs need to sell-out the stadium. This requires enough success to build hope. Spurs need players choosing to sign. This requires European football. Extended time out of European football crushes our income (half filled stadium and fewer shirt sales) and opportunities to buy established players. But, winning trophies does not generate money - it is money losing proposition. So, if you want to maximize money you need invest just enough to get European football. After that you lose money. So, does Levy/ENIC really want to win or are they just making money - which depends on us being right where we have been the last 6 years. To extend your analogy - how long do you need to drive before you have a pint? You suggest that the pint is coming - just wait a bit more for them to recovery from Covid and increases resources. I hope so, I really do, but I wonder if they only want the drive.
    • No it doesn't, the stadium will be full (tickets sold, as they are in advance) anyway. Hope is always there. Everything you are saying needs the financial infrastructure first, Leicester City don't have European football, on the field success hasn't helped them has it! They are fighting relegation.
      You still fail to see the point that you make the money to be able to sustain success, not just achieve it, the two are different, as is building to win 15 trophies, not 1, as Leicester prove.