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17 Apr 2014 19:02:08
United fan here! Was just wondering if any Spurs fans agree that Daniel Levy is the person most hurting your team? While all the big rivals go out and spend money from sponsorship and revenue, Levy only seems to want to break even using transfer money?
1.) I disagree, although it is quite right that you have noticed that in terms of net spend Spurs have been consistently the lowest of the PL teams. Average transfer spending over the last 5 years has been £0.
However there is no correlation between transfer fee spent and league success. The relationship is in wages paid. As Spurs are the 6th richest PL team that is where you should expect to consistently see us. Account for the pattern that at least one of the teams above us tends to take a nose dive for a year or two (this year it was you guys, year before Liverpool, year before Chelsea) then we would expect to come around 5th, and that's pretty much what we have been doing.
For me this points to a club that is par for the course, to borrow another sport's term. It certainly is a far cry from the pre ENIc era, where despite Spurs still being a top 6 club in terms of finances we were never a top 6 club in league position. In the Sugar days there was the odd flutter with relegation (2 seasons where only 4 points split us and the drop). After a couple years of ENIC involvement and not only was that idea gone, but now CL is a realistic target every year.
Should we do better? Us fans always think so. For me the only thing lacking has been a manager that can take us the extra step. You can't accuse ENIC of not trying to find one of those (although you can accuse them of trying too hard and sacking the incumbent too frequently). Redknapp for me was the baseline of a manager that adds nothing but also detracts nothing - and yes I believe that many many managers do more harm than good. AVB was not much better. Sherwood was always a stop gap.
Who is going to be next? We dream of LVG but will probably get Mark Hughes.