Managing Director Football: Fabio Paratici

[coy-spurs1882]

I think he had a release fee or something. The point is, relationships are everything in football. It's a little black book game, and those with the best contacts usually prosper. Levy's famously hard to deal with and it probably does put some people off.

reminds me of the berahino saga

 

[rossdapep]

Liverpool are also very content In paying agents fees, if they really want the player they'll pay the agent.

Whereas Levy has never wanted to play that game. We've heard many stories over the years in which we've walked away from a deal because the agent started playing games.

Don't get me wrong if you start bowing to last minute demands of can cause problems later on and you shouldn't allow them to dictate things. However, I think the odd exception wouldn't have gone amiss.

What is the price of glory? I think if you posed that question to Levy we'd all know the answer.

 

[thekneaf]

Liverpool pay incredible agent fees, it's as simple as that. You don't need a little black book if you pay the biggest agent fees. If agent fees were capped then it was make transfers a lot less shady.

Agents only get a set percentage, say 5%, from any signing on fee or transfer fee.

 

[Fittster]

It's a little black book game,

I'd argue it's about whose got the best stats system. Brentford are punching well above their weight as they have the best stats (and the confidence to to put the faith in them over human judgement) in the Championship

 

[SpursSince1980]

Time to bring one in. Get the right one, and it's a critical investment. In particular for a team with limited funds.

 

[Stamford]

We need someone because Levy clearly has no plan. We're drifting majorly

 

[JayB]

I just can't wrap my head around the reported lack of interest in Campos. Levy has shown in the past that he prefers the DOF model, Jose wants to work with him, he's got an absolutely brilliant track-record of identifying top young talents available at bargain prices. The stars are aligned for it to happen, yet JJ has suggested Levy doesn't want him. It's just utterly bizarre, I can't even begin to understand it.

 

[lincspurs]

I just can't wrap my head around the reported lack of interest in Campos. Levy has shown in the past that he prefers the DOF model, Jose wants to work with him, he's got an absolutely brilliant track-record of identifying top young talents available at bargain prices. The stars are aligned for it to happen, yet JJ has suggested Levy doesn't want him. It's just utterly bizarre, I can't even begin to understand it.

You’re not on your own.

 

[Pochemon94]

Yeah with Levy not wanting him could be a power thing with wanting complete control over transfers and how pissed off would campos be if he brought the next big thing to Levy's table saying it'll cost 5 mil and Levy won't buy him because they won't accept his offer of 2 mil plus free soda for 1 year and a top deck seat for the Fury fight.

 

[JayB]

I just can't wrap my head around the reported lack of interest in Campos. Levy has shown in the past that he prefers the DOF model, Jose wants to work with him, he's got an absolutely brilliant track-record of identifying top young talents available at bargain prices. The stars are aligned for it to happen, yet JJ has suggested Levy doesn't want him. It's just utterly bizarre, I can't even begin to understand it.

@Hercules care to explain the d'oh rating on this post?

Has Levy not worked with DOFs throughout much of his time at the club? Has Campos's track record of signing young, cheap talents at Monaco and Lille not been absolutely brilliant? Have there not been consistent rumblings in the Portuguese press since Jose came on board that the two want to work together? Has JJ not pooh-poohed the link?

I don't think there's a single factual assertion there that isn't true, and if there isn't then it simply doesn't make any sense from the outside that we wouldn't hold interest. We're on a tight budget and need exactly the kind of signings that he's a specialist in. It's genuinely hard to see why Levy wouldn't want him.

 

[dirtyh]

I don't think there's a single factual assertion there that isn't true, and if there isn't then it simply doesn't make any sense from the outside that we wouldn't hold interest. We're on a tight budget and need exactly the kind of signings that he's a specialist in. It's genuinely hard to see why Levy wouldn't want him.

cos he's a stubborn twat?

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Ah the 'makes to much sense for it to actually happen' line attached to something that does seem to make all the sense in the world ....

It's been a while.

 

[makeveli]

We keep blaming managers levy is the problem Great business man but no clue about football , if he spent when the time was right we would be where we are.. football is about winning not about football anymore

 

[Fittster]

I have repeatedly said for years and years, flying high or bad results, I want to see a big and ambitious change in terms of the management and structure of the football operations and it does feel like we've drifted along and lost the vision and direction over the last few years, but we don't know as to currently what is going on. Maybe Levy and Mourinho haven't found the right guy yet in the few months they've been working together, maybe the 'obvious target' doesn't actually have any interest in joining us, consider that, we just don't know. If Mourinho wants one though, prior evidence is we will get one in place though sooner rather than later.

Why does Jose get a say in the hiring of a DoF? To my mind the DoF is above the first team coach in the hierarchy. The first team coach should be able to express an opinion to the DoF but when it comes to things like transfers it's the responsibility of the DoF.

Did thing improve when Poch became manager and we saw Mitchell move on?

 

[danielneeds]

We keep blaming managers levy is the problem Great business man but no clue about football , if he spent when the time was right we would be where we are.. football is about winning not about football anymore

No, I don’t think saying “Levy has no clue about football” is correct at all. The guy has been in this industry a long time and we generally have performed above our budget.

The problem is that he sees things a certain way and will not ever move from that way of thinking. If anything, the older and longer he’s being doing it, the more ingrained and conserative his thinking has become.

I remember when ENIC bought the club he went on a fact-finding mission to all the leading clubs in Europe to learn what they were doing and take things that could be applied to revolutionise our club. That kind of approach seems a long time ago now. We look decidedly in the middle of the pack when it comes to how to build teams on the pitch.

Maybe Levy got too enamoured with all the innovation he was applying to the bricks and mortar parts of the club he was building, but he lost sight of the most important part. Any decent organisation would conduct a thorough review after going from the CL final to the mess we’re in now. Will that happen with Levy? I’d doubt it.

 

[Blueluigi6]

Was there any news or tidbits that might suggest Luis Campos would come to tottenham in the summer? Having a DOF like him would be critical in the first transfer window with Mourinho

 

[makeveli]

We need a dof , we had arnesan then chavs took him, pool have one they decided not to build a new ground and invest in the team , levy doesn’t know anything about players we need a plan a budget and a director that knows football , why are Dortmund so good , I won’t blame poch or any other Manager before him it’s levy

 

[midoshairband]

I just can't wrap my head around the reported lack of interest in Campos. Levy has shown in the past that he prefers the DOF model, Jose wants to work with him, he's got an absolutely brilliant track-record of identifying top young talents available at bargain prices. The stars are aligned for it to happen, yet JJ has suggested Levy doesn't want him. It's just utterly bizarre, I can't even begin to understand it.

only worth beinging one in if you’re prepared to back him and part with some cash. therein lies the stumbling block for us.

 

[JayB]

only worth beinging one in if you’re prepared to back him and part with some cash. therein lies the stumbling block for us.

Sure but Campos has publicly stated he prefers to scout players in the £3-5m bracket over established, expensive signings. We wouldn’t actually have to give him much cash, merely raise some modest funds through sale which need to happen anyway. He’d be a perfect fit for our needs at the moment.

 

[SpursSince1980]

Sure but Campos has publicly stated he prefers to scout players in the £3-5m bracket over established, expensive signings. We wouldn’t actually have to give him much cash, merely raise some modest funds through sale which need to happen anyway. He’d be a perfect fit for our needs at the moment.

Seriously couldn’t agree more, mate. But I wonder if Levy has the commitment and patience to go all in on this way of doing things... as that’s what it takes to completely overhaul our approach to player recruitment. He’s never demonstrated a pervasive, overarching philosophy, in terms of how we scout, bring in, and develop players that align to a set of intrinsic guiding principles on the footballing side.