Jonathan Turner: ‘Daniel Levy is the best entrepreneur I know’: Inside Tottenham's boardroom | Ep.27

[@benjaminjung94]

I’d say even contents like this is what fans crave. Behind the scenes, the plans and strategies behind the business and development are also incredibly interesting to true fans.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

That is nonsense, these are finanvial strategies, the team is the milk cown asong as it is making money and filling stadiums, but the cream is being used to enrich the owners.

[@cwo1978]

Such a great informed and educated take on the business of football and one of the best in the business. I'm now a subscriber and looking forward to future editions. Appreciate the transparency Jonathan and couldn't agree more with your sentiment about the growth potential of the Tottenham brand around the world. As a Brit living in California, I'm doing my best to spread the word. Come on you Spurs.

[@djpaullawrence9993]

Great take, not a brit, but sometimes feel the sentiments as my family lives in the area. Been there during the building and hope to be back shortly. 50 years of support.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

I think this guy is talikng like a 1st year economics student, as naive as they come.@@djpaullawrence9993

[@liamoconlocha3264]

You haven't mentioned the team and its cheapo investments, the huge increase in assets for the owners, please, the fans are not stupid, there is a sense of enough is enough!

[@gregmcgrath1226]

So tired of Spurs fans pissing and moaning about Levy. If they didnt have Levy, theyd be pissing and moaning about being stuck in the Championship or the bottom half of the Premiership. I am one of the “New” Spurs fans- started following around 2010. Love the club. I think we will find success in the coming years. Sucks that we couldnt afford to back Poch for those two windows due to the cost of the stadium. We are in great shape. Positive days ahead. Thank you, Daniel. COYS!!

[@GrumpyBugger.]

Donald Duck could have done what Daniel Levy has done regarding infrastructure.

[@GBGOLC]

I do understand where you’re coming from. Daniel has done a fantastic job of taking the club forward commercially. However, what’s the point of being the fourth richest club in England after, Man City, Man Utd, and Liverpool, and eighth in the world. We have overtaken Arsenal in terms of revenue and are just slightly lagging behind Liverpool and will probably overtake them in a couple of seasons. Yet, I cannot see a trophy dropping anytime soon. It’s really becoming beyond frustrating. Look at our personnel and honestly tell me that we can compete, we can’t. In the space of three seasons Arsenal have over taken us football-wise and have made significant key signings. We continue, year-in-year-out to rummage around bargain basement mid level transfers. Yes, you need to be prudent but heaven’s sake. Can we a least try to win something? Can we have a signing where people say, “Wow! Tottenham means business this season.” We’ve just brought Archie Gray from Leeds. A good prospect but we’re not going to win anything with him next season. He’s not ready yet. We need key signings now and Archie to build for the mid and long term. Plus players are volatile things that don’t always guarantee success, our recruitment has proven to be poor over the last few seasons. I think only Chelsea as a peer club have been worse (last season). However, even looking at the grumblings at Man Utd over the last 10 years. Their failure is still better than our success. Repeat, their failure is better than our success. They have still managed to win trophies. Yes, plural. Trophies. No one is saying that it’s easy, it’s not. But as my maths teacher used to say, “You must try harder.” COYS!

[@zhilong]

@@gregmcgrath1226 why? Is Levy the only person who can make money for the club? There are no better club owner is there? Fact is, you don’t know, either do I what would had happen, stop thirsting over him like a simpleton, he is here to make money, not football.

[@aspursy7826]

Football is about glory and silverware. That's top level sport mate. I couldn't give a monkeys about hotels. We didn't even want a new stadium either! All we wanted, and still want, is a team to be proud of. Levy has brainwashed a large section of the fanbase. We're only a top 6 club financially, but this sadly does not translate to the footballing side. Tottenham Hotspur is just a sideshow in the Levy empire. "To Dare Is To Do" Remember!??

[@davidjeavons9619]

I’ve been a supporter since 1958 and think you’re absolutely spot on. Obviously, it’s not how long you’ve been a fan, more the size of your intellect that dictates how you feel. Keep up the good work!

[@MrSiddhant98]

As a spurs fan in India, I'm grateful that they did activities last year with having ossie & ledley here, exhilarating stuff and can't wait for more

[@lilbaz8073]

Really great vid guys. Glad it came up on my feed. Shared it on a spurs fan forum so hopefully you get a boost in subscribers. Kerp this up. So much better than a talksport or skysports clickbait article.

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

Awful video just more PR for Levy and his failed project 1 trophy in 25 years abysmal from a so called BIG 6 club.

[@FBIopenup2390]

@@TottenhamAwayTVget a grip

[@atavachronwemberley1744]

@@FBIopenup2390Oh shut up! Anyone who still backs Levy 24 years in, is obviously in a Cult - who all live along the Northern Line apparently. 🙄🥱

[@GuidodeKortOfficial]

@@FBIopenup2390 He has a grip, it's you who doesn't.

[@atavachronwemberley1744]

@@GuidodeKortOfficial He has a grip on the spreadsheets and that’s IT, laddie! 🙄🥱

[@DuncanB1972]

Great video, as a Spurs fan particular interested myself but would say a great insight for whoever you support.

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

Awful video just more PR for Levy and his failed project 1 trophy in 25 years abysmal from a so called BIG 6 club.

[@MoTHFC]

Loads of half truths. This was propaganda 101.

[@codesouthradio]

Bring back the days where we were a skint arse football club struggling with existence but still managed to keep adding to our trophy cabinet. We got to 110 years old before these grabby investment bankers got their clutches in to us and got rid of the trophy cabinet. Beggars belief.

[@CoysMasterson]

@@codesouthradioidiotic comment. Only eight trophies were won by teams outside the big six in 25 years. They were all relegated. Careful what you wish for.

[@CoysMasterson]

@@MoTHFCplease, please enlighten us.

[@GBGOLC]

Top notch stadium, automated pitch, plush boxes, NFL media centre, pop concerts, nice toilets, reverse filling beers, increased capacity, double match day revenue. Fantastic, exceptional business acumen, and great foundations. When’s the next trophy coming?

[@dannydowdeswell246]

Sit around staring at that spreadsheet a trophy is never coming , so now you know ,you can hopefully move forward now and go and watch darts because stressing over Levy and his club/team is not for you.

[@thomaskim2159]

As long as Levy is involved in the football decisions, never. maybe a cup one of these days

[@jasonmarquis5798]

Exactly this mate 👌🏼

[@jasonmarquis5798]

@@dannydowdeswell246 Levy loves fans like you. Charges you silly amounts of money for achieving nothing, and fans like you lap it up. Embarrassing 🤡

[@MelvinManaveld-du4co]

This season mate.

[@orinorio1]

Been saying this for Years. I supported Spurs from when they played at WHL. A club happy to finish 10th with maybe a cup. Getting into the EL was like being in the CL. Today Spurs are a club fighting for the top four and expecting to fight for the title. Levy has made Spurs one of the biggest club in the world despite the club not winning titles. He has made Spurs strong from the base. When he has done hasn't been done by any chairman in football.

[@stratostheplug]

Only you and levy would rather finish top4 than get 10th and a trophy. I'm all for ucl football but the trophy is more important

[@orinorio1]

@@stratostheplug me and Levy ? See fans like you make no sense. You say Levy is all about profit yet say he doesn't care about wining things. When winning titles will be a bigger profit then finishing 4th. Levy is the Chairman he brings in mangers who are their to win titles. Poch came close but wasn't good enough. You of course will say he wasn't backed even though when he was PSG he was brought in to win the CL never happen. At Chelsea he got to finials what happen? When Man City wins the PL or when they one the triple last year. Who did you see holding the trophies? Was it the Chairman or Pep and the players, the minimum requirements that Levy wants is CL. An like him I want Spurs to win titles though understand its difficult

[@liamoconlocha3264]

Wrong, he has increased the value of it's ownership, I suppose you know what that means. It's an imveztment company, the fans sponsor all investments including hotel, stadium and karting etc. You really need to look a little more critically at the money flow.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

​​@@orinorio1I'm afraid you haven't followed the money, it isn't a club, it's an investment company, the 'club' provides a huge cashflow, premium prices, pensioners kicked out, hotel and stadium built on the the money from fans. Now compafe team investments amd adk yourself why? The managers who left seem to have understood this, Poch had a year of zero investments, I am sorry to say, you can only judge talk by actions taken, and follow the investments, and look how wealthy the owners have become, it is now worth almost 4 billion. Now where do you think that 4 billion is? I rest my case

[@orinorio1]

@@liamoconlocha3264 Every club in the world is an investment club. The owner sees the club as a business as football is a business. Anything that involves money is a business. Enic only recreantly invested 150m into Spurs last season. It means if Spurs are sold they will get that back plus interest. Spurs are worth £3.5billion.. Spurs don't have £3.5 billion its what it would cost to if someone wanted to buy the club. You could say your car is worth 4k does it mean you have 4k for it? Poch having one widow with no players was due to Spurs moving into a new stadium, Poch never won anything with Spurs so didn't have extra money for bringing new players that season. Joe Lewis was already wealthy due to the company he owns. Levy has made Spurs one of the biggest club in the world despite not winning a title. So he gets paid based on that. Spurs have come close to winning titles but Poch wasn't good enough to managed the team to win the big big games. Mangers not Owners win titles. Never seen Levy standing on the touchline giving players instructions. Never seen Levy playing the big games and not showing up. You're never gonna rest your case as your case is looking at a small dot on a big picture.

[@mhtbfecsq1]

Good to know that my great great grandkids might get to see us lift a trophy.

[@innovirtua]

Just what I was thinking. Football will be played by robots in simulators by the time we're "sustainably competitive". Levy is the Bernie Ecclestone of Football. Sucking all the profit and the life out of the sport.

[@orinorio1]

Its interesting, When Man City win titles its always the Chairman who get interviewed after. He is the one that everyone says he is the reason they won. Nothing about the manger at all. When I see a team doing the bus event its always the chairman on the bus holding up the trophy never the manger or players.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

​@@orinorio1the chairman drives everything else, at Spurs, you can scream about players, tactics and managers, total waste of time. The two piggy banks on top are the main reason for empty hands. The assets though are almost worth 4 billion....now answer that and you know why Spurs are not out to be serious contenders top 8 is fine, they know 'hope' will fill the stadium with 6 million pounds every week. You are being used!

[@orinorio1]

@@liamoconlocha3264 The chairman is the owner so yes he makes the call on what happens at Spurs. Spurs is worth 4 billion based on the ground and sponsors along with the money Spurs as a club brings in every year. Spurs don't have 4 billion its what the club is worth. The hotel and other things around are also part of Spurs for those who are non football fans. Top 8 isn't find Spurs always want to finish 4th or higher as this brings in more money for the club. Spurs have gone for a team happy to finish 10 with a maybe a cup to a club that should be challenging for the title. The PL has 6 top clubs and Spurs are one of them all trying to get top spot. last 4 seasons its been Man City or Liverpool. other teams have gone close but couldn't win it. If Enic only wanted Spurs for money Spurs would still be at WHL. Enic would have given Spurs millions for players but then Enic would take all that money back witch means if they sold Spurs they would get all the money. The why Enic runs Spurs means if somone bought Spurs the money would go to Spurs the club not Enic. Enic would only get what investment they made

[@liamoconlocha3264]

@@orinorio1 that is not the wsy it works the profits, the money fans kedp pouting into the football club, is being invested in assets, those assets are a msjor part of the evaluation, if they sell some time in the future, the sales will go directly to the owners, I think your getting your legal terms mixed.up here, the owners so called ENIC, nice touch, non petsonal, will bank every penny of that, and the new owners will have the whole shebang, if they purchase the whole lot, to create wealth, kr hopefully to run a real football club.

[@davidjones992]

What an interesting, eloquent ambassador for the club. I understand the first and last thought of the day being Spurs once you check the family is ok, me too! Also, being in Oz waking up two, three AM for the loo and checking for any new player announcements.

[@fonejacker0]

Alarm bells are ringing with this bloke. Chancer alert, spot one a mile off.

[@atavachronwemberley1744]

@@fonejacker0Absolutely agree. These bots are clearly Levy plants

[@liamoconlocha3264]

Just the type of fan they want, never check the growth of the two boys assets, almost 4 billion, paid for by the fans who wake up focussed on the team.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

​@@fonejacker0he's too naive, he is justbthe type Levy loves, will never adk critical auestions about how the assets just keep growing while the team puffs along.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

​@@atavachronwemberley1744he will never question Levy or Mafia Lewis.

[@Stan-lq9ud]

Very insightful. Thank you for creating and sharing and thank you for doing this interview Jonathan #COYS

[@Taecoconut]

Australian fans appreciated it and the players for coming to Melbourne

[@liamoconlocha3264]

Purely business, nothing to do with sport, check out the turnover on Spurs merchandise sold in Korea.

[@Taecoconut]

@@liamoconlocha3264 regardless - we appreciated them coming to us. Ppl generally don’t come down to us cos we’re like 28hrs away from the Uk

[@ChubbBates-mh5xp]

I started following Spurs in 78 ,when we were in the 2nd division…I saw us win 3 cups quite quickly.,so I was expecting more of the same.Alas I’ve been used to seeing Spurs win just 2 cups in 40 years since our early success.I’ve been a levy out for a long time as he never fully backed managers but in the time just before Ange came in he ‘d bought in Sarr kulu, Destiny so let’s hope he keeps this up.

[@glen8461]

Thanks for coming to Melbourne , it was great seeing the players, ( established ones and the young up and coming). And of course the coach., Ange. We know it was difficult being so far and a completely different time zone and season .Appreciate it. Any chance of putting together some sort of book or quotations thingy on Ange and his coaching philosophy. Even going right back to his early days. ???? ( without giving to much away to the enemy ! )

[@JustinWilliamson-f7t]

What great interview. Thx so much for doing this.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

It's pure nonsense dude, this guy is ad maive as tbey come a little like a 1st hear economics student. Does not adk questions...

[@beyond72deepsoulfulhousemixes]

@5:32 and we're bantered for our longest trophy drought in 70 YEARS every 15 seconds. Cheers, Daniel. COYS

[@joeparker6774]

“The most poignant one in my head I probably won’t talk about here, the most important thing about the mistakes that you make are that you are very candid about it” 😂😂

[@andrewmason8691]

A great interview. I have a corporate background and as an Aussie, I am now following Spurs because of Ange. In the context of this video, it has surprised me how much I have started following football and Spurs. But…it is primarily limited to following Spurs on KZbin, because I don’t want to pay for subscription to watch Premier League. In comparison, I can watch rugby union, rugby league and Aussies Rules in Australia on free to air TV. Premier League football needs to be provided on free to air TV if it wants to engage Australians more deeply and for the long term.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

Spurs is not a team, it's an investment company, Ange I hope will discover this and get the hell out of there!

[@liamoconlocha3264]

If you have a corporate background you should be able to understand the flows, especially financial flows, and answer this question as well as possible, where are the profits going, and what is happening with the assets, and who are doing well from it all?

[@kofestar]

​@liamoconlocha3264 interesting point but it's not the 70s anymore. The football club is not just what happens on the pitch. The most successful clubs have never been run that way and the days of each team having a super star is no longer. All football clubs are a business otherwise they will be in administration. Mismanagement of this side of things will look something like recent day Barcelona

[@liamoconlocha3264]

@@kofestar what you're missing is the personal enrichment of two men, who when it comes to selling, will have changed tbeir 20m for 4 to 6 bn. So, sure run the clus in a sound manner, but the investments are not going to the club, they are increasing personal wealth. The off pitch turnover results should translate to the pitch, but do they? Zilch has been spent this year on the market. 160m has been saved in moving players on, that disappears into a healthy Barbadoes account. So, there is a difference between sound business sense and pure greed.

[@kofestar]

@@liamoconlocha3264 you are making all this up in terms of a Barbados account. Of course any business man will want to make a profit. It's not a charity. If they are doing that and not putting infrastructure in place, then that's a problem but they are. Spurs have only started making profit in the last 3 years so prior to that, who had to deal with those losses? One day a new owner will take over this club and I hope even if we win trophies, they can manage the business side just as well

[@kappaslapper14]

If only there was a way to put on a VR headset and experience a live game as if u were there in the stadium , could also have huge commercial potential with the other events held at the stadium . Pretty sure fans would buy VR headsets if this was possible to get the live experience from home .

[@billyandrews5350]

As Spurs fans we want to challenge and win trophies

[@GU_WOP_O]

Sustainably. Only been a fan since the Berbatov, Bale, and Modric days but I’m COYS for life knowing the silverware will come

[@innovirtua]

@@GU_WOP_O I've been a fan since 1978. With Levy I'll be dead before we win the Supercup. You'll get to see all your favourite bands at the ground, and stay in the hotels the night before though.

[@harrisonbarnes3704]

@@innovirtua so true

[@codesouthradio]

@@GU_WOP_O yes. The silverware will come - the silverware will come for the players who choose to move on to greener pastures like the very three players you just listed. All 3 moved on to win everything elsewhere as they knew they were at a club who will never challenge for anything due to the lack of ambition. Since Berbatov’s move in 2008, what has changed? Have we won anything? Do we attract top players? Do we retain our top players? Do our top players still want to move on to greener pastures?

[@orinorio1]

Spurs have challenge for Titles didn't win because the manger at that time wasn't good enough to win the games that matter.

[@punmaster9000]

Brilliant vid. Lifting the lid on incredibly well run operation. Lets hope it shows on the pitch next season COYS

[@codesouthradio]

One more season 🤞🤞🤞🤞 Its only been 25 years. We just need one more though.

[@brodycomer4936]

This was a very interesting watch on a side of spurs I had never thought of great video

[@reggaesquirrel.]

Good insight. If you really put the fans first you would show the same ambition to win trophies as you do chasing new markets and revenue streams. Saying this as an international fan.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

Totally correct, well done, someone who has followed the money

[@rezi31]

Hello, great stuff and quite professional! What is you podcast technical setup, what are you filming on? Thanks!

[@shepnic]

Always wondered with the size of squads nowadays, why clubs don’t split in two and head to two different countries for brand building games. You’d get superstars in both teams. Reckon both would still sell out stadiums around the world (at the same time).

[@saturdaymorninggt7545]

I never comment on videos but really enjoyed this… Humanising the Tottenham board is a good idea 👍

[@geoffstern7652]

Humanism the Tottenham board is a good idea? Daniel's PR boy sounded more like a lying tory politician than a football man. 1 League Cup in almost a quarter of an ENIC HOTSPUR century and Loser Levy has won you over!

[@saturdaymorninggt7545]

@@geoffstern7652 nope, remembering signing strikers from lower leagues on loans, free transfers signings of old past it players, needing to sell our best and being around the relegation zone when I was growing up compared to now is down to Levy and others. Bad decisions have been made of course but what club hasn’t made some bad decisions? We have been in the position to win the league and It’s not like we haven’t been to finals. No brain washing, just able to put things into context.

[@atavachronwemberley1744]

@@saturdaymorninggt7545 Yet we STILL won more trophies in those eras than Loser Levy ever has

[@saturdaymorninggt7545]

@@atavachronwemberley1744 splitting hairs here mate, 1 FA cup in 91 and 1 worthington cup in 99 and mid bottom half mediocre finishes… Or Challenging for the league, consistent top 6 finishes and champions league football, multiple finals and a champions league final. Not perfect, but I’d rather the current regime.

[@atavachronwemberley1744]

@@saturdaymorninggt7545 Bottom line - the supposedly ‘disastrous’ 1990’s : 2 trophies. In the nearly 25 years since : 1 trophy and no discernible sign of being close to adding to that. Can you imagine Levy and ENIC lasting 5 minutes with Liverpool fans. Of course not. A fanbase and a club from top to bottom geared to and committed to winning - unlike our bunch of complacent losers at the top.

[@BelgianHotspur]

Interesting 🧐 interview. However the business plan can not be a success until it achieves its real goal which is to win trophies 🏆. That’s the name of the game . I’ll call it a success when I see that.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

@@BelgianHotspur the business plan is not to win trophies,it's to use the team as a cash cow to invest in assets to increase the wealth of the owners

[@glen8461]

Hey can the actual game be covered with more and better cameras angles in general play and up close? When it's on the other side of the field it can be really difficult to watch and see what is going on ,or even who was involved. Getting those basics right would greatly improve the experience of the majority of supporters worldwide I'd imagine. Content around the actual game and incidences in the game would be what would interest me. Watching the absolute best talent up close and their raw God given talent is a privilege. Cheers

[@yazdjebbour]

Stadium naming rights was missing from the first 50 minutes of this interview.

[@McDric]

So you're interested in expanding your fan base at the cost of pricing your existing fans out of thestadium

[@haydencouper6233]

As a fan that lives in Australia, imagine the cost it would be for me to travel to England and stay for one game

[@dutchgrass]

Not limited to Spurs, the PL or even Sport in general.

[@zhilong]

If fans keep buying the 125 shirt and spend money at the stadium while the club wins nothing, why not? Levy didn’t force you to give him your money.

[@Phil2109]

I agree that no one forced Spurs fans to buy the shirts every season. No-one forced people to pay Levy's ridiculous prices.

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

EXACTLY shameless and zero appreciate for a fanbase who's been treated like a cashflow cow to generate wealth for the owners nothing else.

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

This is awful and further confirmation of how Levy and his cronies have destroyed our FOOTBALL club. Terrible biased video.

[@zhilong]

Don’t think it’s biased mate, he is a bussiness man, they are not in it for the football.

[@dutchgrass]

God you are a negative thicko

[@jpassen5980]

No more biased than your comment! Would you rather a club that overspends on players and wages only for those expensive players to fail? The result of that is relegation and/or several years of low league suffocation of club and supporters. Take your pick. I know what I would have!

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

@@zhilong The video is biased they just agree with him zero rebuttal or questioning of the utter failure on the field of play.

[@dutchgrass]

@@TottenhamAwayTV utter failure... do you even hear yourself?

[@mimikolomamu]

Very good business...very good. By the way, what has Tottenham win in the last 30 years?

[@danj4736]

I wonder if the amount of cuts in this video is due to making it a concise video for the viewer OR it’s because things were revealed that were asked to be cut… interesting anyway

[@JamesBrown-rx8tz]

Great interview and insight as a Spurs fan.

[@GuidodeKortOfficial]

It's absolute garbage.., if you believe any of that rubbish you are just the fan they like to have. Unable to question decisions and a happy clapper.

[@colinturner4158]

All the profits into the team well let’s see

[@shahali710]

Still sounds like profit over glory 🏆 to me

[@nileevans229]

Great stradagee bro

[@robertlangley1664]

I have all ways backed D Levy he’s build the training ground and the fantastic stadium with out putting the club in jeopardy

[@liamoconlocha3264]

Jesus please, his assets have grown to 4 billion thanks to 60,000 plus faithful fans being milked again amd again

[@robertlangley1664]

@@liamoconlocha3264 I bet you never go to Spurs

[@liamoconlocha3264]

@@robertlangley1664 gave up my season ticket to a neighbour. Had been going for almost 50 years, so Robert please, argue the points if you can, I know the messenger is getting up your nose. Tell me this Robert, have you checked out the cash flows? If you did, then we can talk seriously

[@liamoconlocha3264]

@@robertlangley1664 all assets, which means an increase in wealth for just two men, one a convicted scam artist, way too clever for your average fan.

[@drew-drewzilla-borham9276]

It amazes me that a video from a channel called the “Business” of sport has so many clueless fans complaining that they’re not being mentioned and their feewings are being hurt… it’s a discussion about the business side of the club… it’s not a video that’s supposed to cup your balls in a warm embrace and tell you you’re all so wonderful. Get TF over yourselves… there are plenty of channels you can go 😢😢 on.

[@simonfoxhall8604]

@@drew-drewzilla-borham9276 👏👏👏

[@codesouthradio]

A discussion on the football side of the club wouldnt be that much of a watch. Thats the point.

[@simonfoxhall8604]

@@codesouthradio still avoiding answering the seven clubs above us in the financial league, then? No surprise 🤣🤣🤣 You lack the intellect to illicit any more responses.

[@codesouthradio]

@@simonfoxhall8604 have you and your intellect ever heard of Forbes? Wake up mate

[@MoTHFC]

Whos going to tell him😂

[@FIZZYP3P_0.4]

I'd be embarrassed to big up an ownership model that isn't aligned to its customers'needs or desires. For the last quarter of a century they have taken us for a ride.

[@zhilong]

This video is about how to make money, not how to be good at football. So yeah, fans are Levy’s money farm while he gives nothing to football.

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

SPOT ON

[@codesouthradio]

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[@MelvinManaveld-du4co]

Why don't you just continue your ride to HULL.

[@CoysMasterson]

Shortsighted entitled viewpoint. Levy has transformed our club from mediocrity to elite.

[@wrighthartlane99]

What an interview

[@liamoconlocha3264]

Terrible.....a typical 1st year student attitude

[@mikezappa]

“The FRANCHISE needs to be protected. What the actual f**k, he actually said that.

[@rhysjaggar4677]

People really do need to be honest about the fact that both Emirates Stadium and THFC Stadium paid for-/are paying for themselves from day 1. Arsenal were never limited due to the stadium post 2007, they simply couldn't compete financially with Abramovitch and City Group. It's the same with Tottenham. The stadium has never been the issue. The EPL environment is far more relevant.

[@kofestar]

Quick question spurs fans, in todays landscape and economy, do you think you'll be able to compete with other clubs in terms of attracting great managers and players if the strategy wasnt to invest in great training ground, stadium and aiming to be self sustaining, i.e not profitable?

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

“Daniel is an incredibly good listener” for shareholders, board of directors and money makers NOT fans, football managers and our best players. Spurs win NOTHING so who is Levy listening to? 😂😂

[@zhilong]

Himself, he brought Spence when Conte said wtf. Now he lost mils on the player, and many more, Levy is horrible and this video has reinforced that.

[@Alanjelvis]

@@zhilong He wanted Bastoni but stingy Levy refused to pay the money.

[@toxicheadshot8573]

We fans want 🏆

[@IvanGreenaway]

Brilliant - more please 👍

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

The way this man speaks is why Spurs win nothing this is all for show nothing anout this man signifies FOOTBALL SUCCESS measured by trophy wins 🏆

[@RAJ-Jamcal]

Well, you're talking like a fan who only sees the pitch and the team. But there's more to a club than just on the pit h. Did Spurs deliberately go out to be trophyless? No. Do you need money to compete? Yes. Then how do you get the money? Man City and Chelsea had sugar daddies. Spurs would need a self funding business. To generate money, you need to think beyond the normal TV rights. Gate recipes, etc. Spurs had to increase capacity as well as modernise the stadium for the next 100 years. They've done fantastically well with infrastructure, and thst should pay in a long run for tip talents on the pitch. Arsenal couldn't buy decent players for almost 20 years... Spurs can still compete reasonably well, about 5 years after opening an expensive stadium. You should also understand that Spurs is a public quoted company... Their business must be above board.... I always say that if all the clubs in the EPL spend £1b on players, only one can win the league, and some will be relegated... So spending money must be done in a sensible manner, or you're in for a big fall

[@djpaullawrence9993]

Troll alert!!! You banned people from your channel who do not share your doomsday opinions yet you running around on everyone's channel spewing your nonesense. I saw your recent post on Mitchell. Obviously, I could not have a good laugh of how Insane your thumbnail reads. "Mitchell gave us the best starting 11 ever". What a tummy buster!! So, commonsense, maybe not so at your channel would say, he was not responsible for the rest of the squad or whatever else happened around the team. That would be Levy. The ones that succeeded are all due to the manager and scouts or directors, the failures lie squarely at Levy's feet. "Tottenham Away" , your negativity don't bother me one bit, it is your arrogance, that boil my blood, and no disrespect to the other writers, presenters or commentators on the channel, that miscreant in a hat that sets me off.

[@codesouthradio]

@@RAJ-Jamcalyup, well done. And it all still amounts to an empty trophy cabinet. Whilst we have these capitalists behind the scenes who only think in terms of profits and balance sheets, us football fans will be subjected to another 25 years of mediocrity. Keep on fighting these money men’s corners. Keep sucking that BS teet. Tottenham are the laughing stock of world football.

[@kenardy]

@@RAJ-Jamcaldon’t bother trying to talk facts to him. He doesn’t care. We could win a treble and he’d still want levy out. He’d rather us spend all the money in our coffers, win a tin pot and then die as a club.

[@TheTavernAi]

we used to be a football club

[@LUGNE-qt1cm]

Football club, NOT a business. 'We make long term decisions' - ENIC are doing everything they can (go karting, skywalk, concerts, etc) to increase the value of their portfolio. The money is not amply reinvested into the football team.

[@hedwards4020]

Unfortunately Football is now a business and has been for a long time. While making money books also need to be balanced, otherwise we're back to the late 80's/ early 90's. Levy has made sure that no second coming of Irving Scholar can put us back in that situation. Additionally, when ENIC came in we were not financially fit and lucky to still be a PL club. We now compete in and around the top 4 regularly. A lot of money gets spent on the team. Pochettino spent almost 500m, Mourinho spent over 100m, Conte also. We have a recruitment team and they've improved over the last few years. The Poch years had us ahead of the plan, but it is all moving in the right direction and can only be good for the club.

[@kevinyang2400]

He could be talking about grimsby town for all we know. Since he hardly mentioned anything sbout the team and made zero mentions about Ange

[@defendi7]

Levy is a great listener is the biggest joke.. In any business.. you listen to your customers needs.. Tell me which fan does not want to see their team lift trophies.. Talking about our grankids experience.. They wont support Spurs if we do not win anything.. They rather support city etc than have a nice padded seats and the whole hospitality experience.. Levy and the board are so deluded.. Funny he keeps mentioning profit will be trown back into the team.. Thats like the board members meeting narrative.. Over 20 years and the board has neen a failure.. Just go look at Liverpool and how long their board got it right.. Muppets

[@MoTHFC]

This really shows that we are business venue and not a football club. Business is part of football. Football is not Business😢

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

CORRECT

[@alshermond]

How do you measure success? Consistent competitiveness and winning trophies.

[@norman9792]

Trophies would be nice.

[@JoeyCFC]

As a long form content creator where all your long form videos have the most views I’m shocked you asked him about Tik tok and “attention spans”

[@sclerwage]

great podcast! The costume department shall soon be made redundant. Unless jogging is a critical faction of the podcast, I'd recommend leaving your shorts at the gym. COYS

[@GuidodeKortOfficial]

These interviewers are so naive and cringe you'd think they'd just about left the womb. 1 mickey mouse trophy in over 25 years, ENIC OUT

[@Taecoconut]

Fans saying “we’ve been bantered too much” Me: 😑 are you kidding me? Are you so soft that you care about nobodies “bantering” you?

[@simonfoxhall8604]

brilliant!!

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

Awful video just more PR for Levy and his failed project 1 trophy in 25 years abysmal from a so called BIG 6 club.

[@simonfoxhall8604]

@@TottenhamAwayTV Negative, predictable, and boring, comment, as ever, from you mob. 🥱🥱😴😴

[@mikezappa]

@@simonfoxhall8604But as true today as it was 24 years ago

[@colinturner4158]

The club looks great it’s run very very well but it takes in and creates a huge amount of money there’s been to many mistakes far to many managers and players simply not good enough in terms of on the field success

[@GuidodeKortOfficial]

Get this in your thick skulls: you're a customer/consumer to them, before you are a fan. Your money is what matters.

[@jakemills7835]

Sounds great, but what are we actually doing with that money? How many of our signings sit on the bench and eat wages week in week out? How many players are in the last year of their contracts with little to no resale value? Great business model, terrible recruitment.

[@darrenkilbane2613]

Levy is a brillant business man and done a great job turning the club around but the fans are sick of not pushing hard enough to want to bring the top quality players needed to win trophies its what Tottenham football club is a football club ..And as Poch said and Conte no point having a beautiful house with no furniture timt to start spending big and change the wage structure ..Great the club is stable but fans want success on the pitch as well as off it .

[@alk3345]

Spot on 👌 absolutely nailed it. We've shone Levy's balls for years about what a good businessman he is. 23 years and 1 trophy. It's time to reflect it on the pitch.

[@ASWinner-hl8wb]

Unless you regulate football to stop the shambolic fickle fans who need to protest against the actions of Levy’s poor pitch success on the field them I am afraid nothing will change. This chap in the video is what the problem is with the club, great off the field with commercial success but trophless on it. Please spurs fans support the team not the regime. #tottenhamaway #steliostalkssense

[@trevortruscott815]

Stadium naming rights ? Seems like a serious omission

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

99% of the comments are trashing this Spurs board member ands this interview ZERO connection with out fanbase.

[@darrenshilhan2525]

Tbf, a large percentage of those are from you.

[@joeparker6774]

I honestly like a lot of what Jonathan is saying. But but some of these answers are very political, as you would expect I guess

[@spurs541]

Levy 👑

[@GuidodeKortOfficial]

50:10 Which club in EUROPE he asked. Answer: Liverpool. That's not even IN EUROPE technically. I'd have respected Mr Turner if he replied Real Madrid, because they win everything. The aim of the game. This is how I get this is a series of waffle.

[@McDric]

Of course you're forced to pay if you want go to matches. That's a ridiculous statement

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

This is one of the worst PR video's Spurs have engineered this year

[@Nomorespursy]

So for over 20years we got it wrong. Now with the new experts that's been brought in. We've seen numerous managers and really bad buys. How long is it going to take to get Spurs turn from losers to winners?

[@GuidodeKortOfficial]

41:10 This is everything that's wrong with the PR loaded trash they keep shoving through our throats. I don't care, train for the games, play the matches, win the trophies. I don't give a shit about what's on player X's phone lockscreen. Win us a goddamn trophy. That's your job, not being a celebrity and win nothing. Ask Harry Kane how he feels about that.

[@alexoneill301]

Can anyone explain how the "bigger" teams have more capital. The traditionally bigger clubs are mostly not in the Champions League and have not won the league for many years

[@jake6379]

Gazza has really turned himself around. And lost the accent!

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

hahaha

[@geoffstern7652]

Daniels PR man keeps talking about long range planning after almost a quarter of a century of ENIC HOTSPUR...

[@geoffstern7652]

Meanwhile, whilst Johathan bigs up the ENIC business model, the clubs biggest rivals the Arsenal have won 7 FA Cups, 7 community shields, and 2 Premier League titles (whilst mostly being crap) since ENIC bought THFC for much less than they sold Harry Kane for!

[@joeparker6774]

We have to be so wary of talking about players just as assets. This talk of players showing their life behind football is unfair, they are human beings and deserve to have privacy away from all of the media attention and scrutiny they already face. There is a line to be toed

[@Alanjelvis]

Levy what was the point of Mourinho and Conte if you refuse to back them and refuse to match their ambitions????

[@dutchgrass]

He did back them, look at actual spend rather than repeating what morons say on social media

[@TottenhamAwayTV]

Levy';s ambition is Top 4 and hotels and he has the customer base (not fans) eating out of his palms

[@MrDitkovich]

​@@dutchgrass spending money doesnt mean backing if the manager doesnt get the player he wants. mourinho wanted skrinar/dias but levy got him rodon. not backing at all

[@dutchgrass]

@@MrDitkovich most managers don't get all their 1st choice, does that mean none are backed? Arteta wanted the Ukrainian player who went to Chelsea and had to accept trossard, means he isn't backed?

[@MrDitkovich]

​@@dutchgrass i still dont think mourinho and conte were fully backed. they didnt have signings to push them on to compete. they were given rodon, spence. conte even said spence was a club signing and didnt want him. same with pochettino and jack clarke. he didnt want him, clarke was a club signing

[@MickFu-bq3qt]

Spurs looking to digitise the whole business ?! Wtf is he on about we are a football club and our fans are looking to win trophies!

[@marksatoshi405]

Understand, you are also a business, which is what is being discussed. Football Clubs, the same as every other business will eventually be digitised and Tokenised. That will include realestate.

[@DimentionalBeing]

"It's just a podcast, i will be fine, just wearing my underpants and Tee shirt"

[@northernspur6282]

The club I have supported for almost 60 years is now referred to as a product 😢

[@andrewgregory1543]

Levy is the best entrepreneur, but the worst football chairman. 23 years of profit before glory.

[@ssseeessseeessseee]

the worst football chairman? look where our club has come from 2000. don’t be so ridiculous

[@GrumpyBugger.]

@@ssseeessseeessseee What has he done we don't see thousands do on Homes under the hammer!

[@andyseeley4972]

@@GrumpyBugger.what are you talking about?

[@Irfan_1]

46:20

[@innovirtua]

Tesco made the same decisions with their supply chain in a box strategy. Cheap but terrible quality food.

[@nadspurs]

A property management & events company that also owns a sideline football club 😄

[@kernowchris]

'Levy has a long term perspective'. Yeah, you're not kidding.

[@geoffstern7652]

Daniel Levy has the worst trophy per season percentage stats of any THFC chairman since World War Two when no football was even being played. STATISTICAL FACT!!!

[@MrSteviesmozz]

One League Cup in 23 years, Levy out, ENIC out.

[@zhilong]

This explains why Levy is so rich but won nothing great in football. Thanks and hope Levy go away for someone like Roman from the old Chelsea to come in.

[@azhar9234]

U mean a war merchant who supports war crimes and mafia murders. Well No thank you. U better go support the plastics instead.

[@Bravactkins]

Who is this fella?

[@GuidodeKortOfficial]

They talk about success on the pitch as if it doesn't involve lifting the trophies at the end of the season? Business, business, business....money, money, money...sell Bale, Modric, Berbatov, Dembélé don't buy Hazard, Grealish, and other key figures when haggling over a couple millions. The contradictions over what they say and what they do is night and day. But yeah, go buy your 100£ kits and 20£ burgers, go race F1, go do the skywalk, hotel and watch NFL, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé...and still win nothing!! They'll still take your money every season and sell the same bollocks "we're competing hee hee hee". Football is finished with these megalomane prices, dead ballers, and businessmen.

[@Irfan_1]

31:08

[@geee2tube985]

The only thing that will move Levy/ENIC to move on the 1st Team is if the EPL status is under threat, hence their guaranteed £100m EPL existence money under threat. He doesn't need to push the boat out for that, no trophies needed at all, he can continue prioritising his Tottenham Disney project to make him and the Board members more money, & that £100m just keeps coming in. A winning team is not in the remit; if it happens, then, even better, but that's not the plan based on the evidence of 24yrs in charge of barrenness amidst full houses every week.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

A lapdog speaks for the Spurs Investment Inc. The company is building assets the whole time, the idea is the following; they pretend to be interested in a team, but the team generates income, the income creates a new stadium, a hotel, training grounds, karting track, as well as huge amounts of merchandise, lots of concerts which have been extended to 30 extra per year, now they are up amongst the very highest generators of income. Now this is all being done with the the loyalty of fans who actually believe they are supporting a team, but that is fake; the team generates income, that is invested again and again for the benefit of two people, and not for the team, it means we shall have the 'milk cow' generating more and more income to create more and more wealth. It's disgusting abuse of fans' loyalty, the lapdog is not sharp enough to understand this.

[@kinggeoffrey3801]

Levy is good at giving himself bonuses every year for failing. What a guy hey?

[@CoysMasterson]

There are far more Pro-Levy real spurs fans than the shortsighted Levy Out Brigade who simply can’t (or refuse to) see the logic behind the only strategy that can enable Spurs to consistently compete.

[@Irfan_1]

10:04

[@liamoconlocha3264]

How to rip off fans week in week out. The two sharks create personal wealth, not the club. He covers uo by saying it's early to say

[@jordanbeckford7044]

Worst run football club on the pitch, best run business

[@dutchgrass]

Utter rubbish

[@jordanbeckford7044]

@@dutchgrass lmfao uou one of those fans see NO trophies, NO desire to bring in better players that take us up a level yet the club makes soooo much money that means we are successful lmfao ok my friend

[@jordanbeckford7044]

@dutchgrass were are the trophies why when we make Champions League they REFUSE to compete for the best player

[@dutchgrass]

​@@jordanbeckford7044no, I am a fan that wants us to win but is also aware the football landscape of the last 20 years with the likes of Chelsea and City making winning something harder than ever. We are the 5th/6th highest turnover club, some way off the top ones therefore expecting us to win and classifying not doing so as failure & worst run club is just foolish & makes you look like a child.

[@jordanbeckford7044]

@dutchgrass can you read ? Worst run club ON THE FiELD especially of the top 6 clubs the ambition is garbage going for BARGAIN basement players like a loanee of Werner, Vlad Chirches, Pacers Chadli, Jack Clarke, Kevin NKoudou , Federico Fazio , Vincent Janssen, all garbage yet they were making BIG dollars from Champions League that's not even the whole list new stadium bringing in money yet we're getting bargain player and trying to get KWP

[@hmq9052]

This guy thinks he's employed to do tech. He's not. He's employed to do the PR. This was sickly