ENIC...

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cookiemonster cookiemonstering.

Shady throwing shade

 

[Led's Zeppelin]

Birch from the athletic article:

Trevor Birch, however, has had a way of connecting with supporters and employees at the clubs where he’s worked, and his departure from Swansea City on Tuesday night led to genuine sadness among colleagues at the Liberty Stadium. His open and honest communication with the supporters meant he was held in similarly high esteem by the fanbase.

So hopefully this is where he helps Levy accomplish the player side goals (transfer, contracts, etc).

agree with all you said and ratings. One man cant do it all. So it’s good to see Levy understands that now.

He’s always understood it. I remember him telling supporters at an early meeting soon after ENIC took over that that was why David Buchler was being appointed Vice Chairman.

I’m pretty confident from my knowledge of DL thst the reason he never recruited a direct replacement for Buchler in the role he was supposed to fill was his (Levy’s) great difficulty in trusting other people.

He always works with a very small team who he trusts enormously, even when in my opinion it isn’t always merited, and finds it very hard to add people to that group.

That's why he’s always liked the idea of a Director of Football, to have someone he trusts to be the go-between between the board and the football people who he rarely feels completely comfortable with. But it’s not really worked well for him because he’s not really found the right person, someone who has the ability and who he can trust.

By the way, I don’t mean “trust” in relation to their honesty. I mean it in the sense of the quality of their judgement.

I‘m encouraged by the fact that Birch is not a DoF in the style of previous appointments, but much more of a fully-functioning board member who will participate in decision making at the highest level, as opposed to being like previous football men who couldn and didn’t want to understand all aspects of running a large company. But He does, and he also has a lot of direct experience of what makes a football club work.

I think we need to adjust our expectations. He’s not been brought in for one specific job, like selling the club or improving our transfer operations. I believe he’s been brought in to increase the clubs effectiveness in lots of areas including the football side of things which, despite the opinion of lots of disappointed supporters, Levy knows has to improve if the value of the club is to increase.

 

[Spurs2020]

1B for a stadium but scared to splash the cash for a back up striker. hurry it up Enic.

 

[dontcallme]

1B for a stadium but scared to splash the cash for a back up striker. hurry it up Enic.

Can people stop making this connection between investment in the stadium and our transfer business.

It’s not like we were tying up all our deals early before we got the stadium.

 

[Spurs2020]

Can people stop making this connection between investment in the stadium and our transfer business.

It’s not like we were tying up all our deals early before we got the stadium.

i will make whatever connection i want lol

 

[sausage]

1B for a stadium but scared to splash the cash for a back up striker. hurry it up Enic.

The stadium took 18 years, so...

 

[Blackrat1299]

I have just read that Spurs have taken up a partnership with Libertex.....
Libertex is proud to announce a multi-year deal with @SpursOfficial as the club's "Official Trading Partner

What does that mean in Laymans terms and how does it benefit Spurs?

 

[Hazelton]

Liberty X? Weren't they a pop group?

 

[dontcallme]

Liberty X? Weren't they a pop group?

Thinking it over I'll be remembering they were just a little.

 

[sausage]

I have just read that Spurs have taken up a partnership with Libertex.....
Libertex is proud to announce a multi-year deal with @SpursOfficial as the club's "Official Trading Partner

What does that mean in Laymans terms and how does it benefit Spurs?

Similar to being the 'official chewing gum of World Cup 2022' or whatever.

Just means they've made some sort of deal where they can probably use the club in some PR or advertising. Libertex are a trading platform, so 'Trading Partner' makes it sound more exclusive than it is.

No different to those chinese phones that they hawked about a few years ago (Leagoo)

 

[McArchibald]

Can people stop making this connection between investment in the stadium and our transfer business.

It’s not like we were tying up all our deals early before we got the stadium.

The stadium expenditure is Levy's eternal figleaf to explain away his parsimony...

 

[DFF]

Similar to being the 'official chewing gum of World Cup 2022' or whatever.

Just means they've made some sort of deal where they can probably use the club in some PR or advertising. Libertex are a trading platform, so 'Trading Partner' makes it sound more exclusive than it is.

No different to those chinese phones that they hawked about a few years ago (Leagoo)

It must also mean they get their hands on supporter data. I wondered why I all of a sudden started getting spammed by Libertex emails a few weeks ago, and them claiming I had opened an account with a service I've never fucking heard of. It all makes sense now...

 

[sausage]

It must also mean they get their hands on supporter data. I wondered why I all of a sudden started getting spammed by Libertex emails a few weeks ago, and them claiming I had opened an account with a service I've never fucking heard of. It all makes sense now...

Well no, that would be a breach of GDPR.

The only email I have had was the announcement this morning, so it won't be related.

 

[DFF]

Well no, that would be a breach of GDPR.

The only email I have had was the announcement this morning, so it won't be related.

Unless you live in a country not covered by GDPR. Otherwise it's the mother of all coincidences...

 

[jurgen]

I have just read that Spurs have taken up a partnership with Libertex.....
Libertex is proud to announce a multi-year deal with @SpursOfficial as the club's "Official Trading Partner

What does that mean in Laymans terms and how does it benefit Spurs?

Depends if you mean benefit to Spurs the business or the football team I suppose. We often see new sponsorship deals trumpeted but then the window opens and...

 

[Ionman34]

A club of Spurs size shouldn't have been competing in mid table for all those years to begin with and Leicester winning may well have been in your opinion a fluke, but that doesn't change the fact that they were league champions four seasons ago and that Spurs haven't won a league title in almost 60 years.

We spent all those years in mid table because the club was bankrupted by a previous regime FFS.

We weren't bought by an oil Baron, so it's taken years of careful husbandry to get us back to where we are now. In that time, Utd went on to become the biggest club in the World, Chelsea got their oil Baron, City got another and the goons thrived under Dean.

Either you have no idea of our history or you're ignoring it to serve an agenda.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

We spent all those years in mid table because the club was bankrupted by a previous regime FFS.

We weren't bought by an oil Baron, so it's taken years of careful husbandry to get us back to where we are now. In that time, Utd went on to become the biggest club in the World, Chelsea got their oil Baron, City got another and the goons thrived under Dean.

Either you have no idea of our history or you're ignoring it to serve an agenda.

That’s a long long long time ago!!

93' the great businessman Sugar took us over and ENIC came in around 2001 onwards

That’s a bloody long time ago especially considering the premiere league exploded and football became the biggest thing since sliced bread!!

 

[cliff jones]

After paying those ticket prices, the fans would expect Levy, if the manager really wants a new player at 20 or 30m, not to be out bid by Clubs who’ve never benefited from CL revenue. Or even got close.

No one is asking for City or PSG spending. No one.

 

[Ionman34]

That’s a long long long time ago!!

93' the great businessman Sugar took us over and ENIC came in around 2001 onwards

That’s a bloody long time ago especially considering the premiere league exploded and football became the biggest thing since sliced bread!!

It was indeed.

Sugar wasn't exactly a Football man, but he saved us from bankruptcy, so I'll cut him some slack.

But shortly after Enic bought us, Abramovich bought Chelsea, which saw them explode once they got Mourinho on board. At that point the main players were Utd and the goons, both of whom have now regressed somewhat.
Then City won the lottery when we were starting to challenge.

Enic have steadily grown us from a club that were going the way Villa went, to one of the World's biggest clubs in their 20 year tenure. Considering what happened with Chelsea and City, and the head start Utd and the goons gained on us, what they have achieved is pretty remarkable without going into massive debt. Even Pool had to have a few buy outs before getting their first Prem title, they went massively into debt a few times on just playing staff.

Whilst I agree that we probably should have had more trophies in that time, it's not like we haven't been close is it? Poch made a couple of finals himself, we just couldn't quite get across the line. That's not on Enic for me, that's just the nature of one off cup finals.

 

[Lighty64]

After paying those ticket prices, the fans would expect Levy, if the manager really wants a new player at 20 or 30m, not to be out bid by Clubs who’ve never benefited from CL revenue. Or even got close.

No one is asking for City or PSG spending. No one.

the ST money spent? did't 90%+ use credit from last seasons ticket money to pay the 20% so just a possibility that money has been already spent