Levy's club is tighter than a duck's Uranus (and no sighted landings)
Levy's club is tighter than a duck's Uranus (and no sighted
landings)
By Don Scully
To win trophies, you need to invest in
the best, as do United, City, Chelsea and the rest of the top 5 clubs. Even the
European top clubs (Bayern, Barcelona, Paris etc.) invest heavily to bring in
the trophies for their clubs'. I said top 5, however, there are six top English
clubs (rated by their wealth), but I didn't mention Levy's Spurs as he doesn't
invest in the same way as the other top European clubs do. That is why we've
won nothing (other than a League Cup in 2008) while Levy has been in charge,
and it is unlikely we are going to win anything while he is running things,
other than a minor trophy (such as the League Cup).
Since 2013 the net spend of European's top clubs:
1. Manchester City have spent £825m and won 10 major honours (only beaten by Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, Bayern Munich & Real Madrid in the trophy stakes).
2. Manchester United have spent £717m and won three trophies (don't forget, this is since 2013).
3. Paris Saint-Germain have spent £452m and won17 trophies.
4. Barcelona have spent £541m and won 11 trophies in 8 years.
5. Arsenal, yes, our dreaded neighbours have spent £431m and won 4 trophies
6. Chelsea are in sixth place and spent £302m and won 5 trophies.
7. Liverpool have spent £215m and won 3 trophies.
8. Bayern Munich have spent £207m and won14 trophies
9. In 9th, but not 10th, is our very own Levy & Lewis purchased club, and they spent £172 and won fuck all.
10. However, in 10th and spending 5m less than us, but still have won more trophies, is Real Madrid. They won 12 trophies in 8 years.
Now, one club hasn't invested as much
as the others (including Spurs), but that doesn't matter if they have something
to show for it (such as 12 trophies). To be fair, we couldn't care how much
Levy invested so long as he had some significant silverware to show for his
tight-fisted grip on the club's money. He hasn't and only a minor league Cup in
21 years of stroking the white cat in his chairman's chair.
But to be fair on Levy, he has
channelled all the money into a brand new spanking stadium that makes more
money than the rest, which allows him to be one of the wealthiest well-paid
chairman, if not the richest, in the world.
Why spend money on winning trophies
when you can spend the profits feeding rich the rich? Making themselves so rich
that even if they lived another 100 more years, they still wouldn't be able to
spend it all. And now they've been cheated out of their European Superleague
money machine, which would have made them even more billions. So back to the
drawing board for Levy & Lewis.
Maybe we should get a statue erected in
honour of Lewis & Levy for what they've done for themselves while director/
owners of our once proud Trophy-winning historical team/ club (then again, that might all change in the future... that is, we start to win trophies).
By Don Scully
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