Trust Levy! He Knows What He Is Doing

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We need to believe in our chairman for once, and we need to back him when it comes to transfers. I mean, look at his face! What isn’t there to trust about him! Daniel Levy may be a figure that splits opinions, but it is hard to deny that if there is a transfer out there waiting to be signed at a cut price, Levy is the man. Besides, who else could get £10 Million for Paulinho?

 

He may have sold our best players, but it’s hard to argue that Daniel Levy got the most amount of money we could for these players. £18 Million for Michael Carrick, £30 Million for Dimitar Berbatov, £40 Million for Luka Modric and £85 Million for Gareth Bale. That’s £173 Million for 4 players! Granted, we didn’t exactly spend the money wisely, but all Levy had to do when bringing in players was supply the money. We had Directors of Football who you should blame for players like Vlad Chiriches, so Daniel Levy could be seen as a scapegoat for the signings.

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But these next few months are going to be like the lead up to Christmas for Daniel Levy, and if I’m being honest, I trust him with the transfer funds. The thing with Levy that I find admirable is that he doesn’t put the club in jeopardy when it comes to finance. He wont splash the cash on someone that he doesn’t feel will help the club. I mean, the biggest mistake he made as chairman was probably letting Harry Redknapp has final say on transfers (if you’re wondering why, ‘arry turned down Sergio Aguero and Luis Suarez, for a combined total of £40 Million, saying they weren’t good enough. That’s why he was sacked).

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Ultimately, my point is that despite the fact we may not spend millions upon millions on players for the sake of it, makes us one of the teams that is the most intriguing during the transfer season. After we bought all those players with the Gareth Bale money, we immediately were seen as challenges for the top 4 and potentially the title, until all but 2 players turned out to be god-awful.

 

The board has stabilized the club, and has made us an attractive club, and a healthy club at that with an amazing stadium on the horizon. Levy has allowed the tag team of Pochettino and Mitchell to take over scouting and picking players, and Levy has also taken a step back and has only got control of how much money is to be spent.

 

As a fan base, we need to really look at Daniel Levy and the board and not demand they spend absurd amounts of money to push for a top 4 place that essentially non-existent if the current top 4 continue to strengthen. We need to support the fact that Levy, Mauricio Pochettino and Paul Mitchell are going to find the best players to build a good, young squad, and with this potentially being the last summer before the construction of the stadium, we need a bunch of players who may not be top class now, but when we have the foundations set in stone of a club ready to challenge the elite, then that is when I would expect the cash to come flying out.

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