Daniel Levy, a man I’d never paid much attention to before, popped up on United’s radar this summer, amidst our battle for Dimitar Berbatov.
The day after comments attributed to Sir Alex Ferguson appeared in The Sun, with our manager naming Berbatov by name as a target he thought was more or less wrapped up, Daniel Levy exploded.
When Fergie laughed off the claims, saying he’d never given such an interview and mocking Levy for taking the word of a tabloid as gospel, Spurs claimed they had far more evidence than these remarks to get United done for tapping up.
However, when they came in front of the Premier League with their complaint, the Premier League sent them away, needing more evidence to punish United. So, either Spurs left their most damning evidence at home that day, or, they didn’t have the evidence they claimed to.
Well, Spurs buckled in the end, selling Berbatov to United for less than City offered, yet Levy hasn’t redeemed himself as any more likeable than he showed himself to be in the summer.
After disgracefully getting rid of Martin Jol, scouting out the replacement behind his back, Spurs lured Juande Ramos to the club. Sevilla made it quite clear they didn’t want Ramos to leave, but Spurs pursued him any way (something Levy criticised United for doing in regards to Berbatov).
Almost a year later to the day though, Levy got rid of Ramos, after an absolutely woeful start to the season. But does he have the balls to accept any of the decisions he made, as Chairman of the club? Hell no. He blames the sale of Berbatov on Ramos, claiming Spurs would have kept the player if not for Ramos’ opinion that he should be sold.
“There has never been a player signed or sold by the club that the coach has not supported and it was the coach who decided to let Dimitar go, even though we didn’t have a replacement,” said Levy. “We would have kept Berbatov even though he wanted to leave. But Juande managed the team and his advice was that he didn’t want a player that didn’t want to be in his squad. He thought it would be detrimental to the team as a whole. I backed his advice.”
Fortunately for us, we got the better of this slimy toad, and Berbatov is hitting superb form for United. His touch is just brilliant and whilst his more relaxed style was unusual at first, it seems we’re getting used to it now. His assist for Ronaldo on Wednesday was just out of this World and I’m genuinely excited to see what more is to come from him, whilst regretful of the two years we’ve missed out on already.
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Guys! This is so true! Fuck Chelsea and FIFA And UEFA! They are carrying out SOCIAL INJUSTCE!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1081811/HATCHET-MAN-How-FIFA-think-losers-Chelsea-deserve-recognition-United.html
Two faced retard. I know from press reports earlier that he stated he supported Ramos in his stance on Berbatov. In the same interview he also says that the coach (Ramos) was responsible for all the players bought in !!! What the F*** was the role then of the director of football ????
Im looking forward to Harry locking horns with this guy. but knowing this slimeball it will all be sweetness and light , just hope the Spurs fans are not that fickle.
Shut up
Your arrogant rule breaking club leaked their interest to a friendly press knowing that it would get to Berbatov
There are only two other ways it could have become widely known
(a) Spurs leaked it (yeah right)
(b) Man Utd approached Berbatov/his agent without permission
name, time to move on, look on the brightside you have pavlychenko instead.
Levy leaked it. It’s obvious to everyone who follows football that that guy has no back bone. He’s a shit stirrer of the highest order. If he had the evidence, where is it? Fact is, as chairman, he has the final say…and he let him go. He treated Jol with complete disrespect and now he’s covering his own spineless back by claimig it was all Ramos’ fault. Perhaps if Levy hadn’t appointed a director of football, against the better judgement of people who have been in the game a lot longer, then Spurs wouldn’t be in such an ugly mess.
I don’t know, we’ve got Calderon and Salgado at Madrid blaming United and Ronaldo for their up and down performances, and now we’ve got Levy and Spuds blaming United and Berbatov for Spurs being naive in the transfer market. Accept the responsibility that goes with the job and stop “telling tales” to cover your own arse.
Small time, or what.
Camolli is (was) Spurs’ biggest problem, the guy knows nothing about football and was responsible for buying and selling. He bought some right donkeys, as well as “forgetting” to sign certain players in the summer window. He also messed up Arshavin to Spurs too.
Look a little closer to home for reasons why you are not performing this season.
name if there was any proof the premier league would’ve done something about it.
Benitez actually spoke on sky sports news about wanting robbie can’t score keane why didn’t spurs carry on reporting them to the premier league
We can’t help it if your best players actually want to win more than the odd mickey mouse cup can we, Spurs promised him champions league football and in the 2 wasted years he had there you were no where near reachin it.
Levy seems to blame everyone except himself, everyone knew Berbatov was going to leave in the summer.
Bringing in a director of football in the English game has and will never work, his idea, sacking Jol his idea, bringing in Ramos hid idea.
He knew Berba was going to leave and all he wanted was to extract as much money out of the deal as posible, to the detrament of his own team and manager.
Spurs are bottom of the league, his fault.
Tapping up players has and always will be a part of football. There are a number of reasons for players jumping ship and heading for another, I personally think there is nothing wrong with Berbatov wanting out. He was promised the sun, moon and stars at Spurs, much like their past 4 managers have. In the end it became evident that he hadn’t a chance of entering, let alone competing, at Europe’s top level. He’s not getting any younger so he took his chance.
I think his biggest mistake was going to Spurs in the first place and not waiting for Utd, they were v. interested in him back then you have to remember.
The blame for Spurs’ predicament lays firmly at the feet of upper management, they are now on their third quality manager in almost as many years and are only beginning to realize it’s the club’s structure that creates all the problems.
It’s sad that players don’t stick with their first clubs anymore but that’s life and you wouldn’t have got him in the first place if he was a loyal player, he’d still be kicking ball in Eastern Europe. Them’s the breaks.
Name, you whingebag tit, you are a perfect example of Spurs fans at the moment. I honestly used to have time for Spurs fans, and Spurs as a club, but since this kicked off in the summer, most all Spurs muppets have been blaming Fergie, Berbatov, or the cleaning lady for their problems.
Look at your own house first, ya hypocritical twat. Players move on, get over it. Ye did the same to Sevilla last year getting Ramos, and to Crystal Palace poaching the young lad (Bostock?) through a tribunal for pennies. Ye knew Berbatov was going somewhere in the summer, but ye sat by and watched til the last day of the transfer window, moaning and bumbling your way through the whole thing.
Granted, in a perfect world Berbatov might of stayed and showed loyalty to ye, he didnt. He’s a foreigner who wanted to test himself at the highest level, something after two seasons playing in England, he knew wouldnt happen at Spurs.
You should point the finger at Levy first, he’s the one paid to run your club properly, Fergie is paid to run ours. The powers that be proved we did nothing wrong. Grow a set of balls and get your house in order instead of blaming everyone else…
Name – You’re a doughnut.
How are people only just realising that Daniel Levy is a nonce?
In a way Im glad he sacked Martin Jol, as hes now proving Levy wrong. I hope the same happens with Juande Ramos.