Tick Tock Daniel

If it isn't the cannibals that get you then it is most definitely the hope. Hope that this year would be different from last year or any year that Levy and ENIC have been in charge of Tottenham Hotspur Football.

With just over a week to go until the transfer window shuts and no new signings since the arrival of Ndombele it looks likely to be another frustrating season for Spurs fans and by all accounts our manager too. Poch has been increasingly cranky in his last couple of post-match interviews hinting that he too is becoming increasingly pissed off by Levy's approach to (not)signing players.

Earlier in the summer, I wrote a piece suggesting that Levy was beginning to feel the pressure from the comments that Poch has been making pretty much all year in regards being under-resourced and unappreciated. When I shared this article on a couple of fan forums and reddit, I was rounded on by some supporters for being a negative nelly - I've chosen not to include some of the more sweary comments from other forums for the sake of the more delicate flowers amongst you who might be offended by such terminology.

You know what I'm getting sick off? Making the same mistakes every single year and expecting a different result! That my friends is the path to insanity........

Levy isn't an idiot only in the same sense that a tapeworm that sits in your gut stealing sustenance from your body isn't an idiot - it's a highly evolved parasite that will continue to do so until you clear it out. The idiots are the fans and the manager who put up with this annual routine or worse yet defend it! Poch seems to have woken up to the fact that whatever Levy promised him at the start of the summer is worth less than a guarantee from Boris Johnson to his partner that he'll be home before 10 tonight not stinking of cheap perfume.

All hell is certainly going to break loose when the manager packs his bags to join a club that actually has some ambition to win trophies! If you believe that Spurs don't have any money then you're a mug - next to nothing as a net spend in transfers, increased revenue from TV deals and sponsorship, a wage structure that ensures our best players are paid significantly less than they'd get elsewhere, continued qualification for the Champions League, etc. etc. The problem is the money that Spurs have is only going in one direction and that is into Joe Lewis' offshore account in the Bahamas!

Joe Lewis's $250million yacht - imagine what Spurs could achieve with a similar investment,,,,,,,

Levy certainly loves a bargain but the problem is that there aren't many if any bargains in football these days especially when dealing with other English clubs. For example, I can only assume that Levy still seems to be hanging onto the idea that Fulham are about to "do a Leeds" and go into financial meltdown following their relegation from the Premier League. Parachute payments are now designed to stop that very thing from happening and allow Fulham to hold onto their prized assets such as Ryan Sessegnon or at the very least sell them for a fair price. We've been "negotiating" with Fulham for the best part of 2 years and yet it still hasn't dawned on Levy that this isn't going to be like when he bought Aaron Lennon and Danny Rose in exchange for some canned goods and the loose change in his pockets.

We are now entering the fabled "Levy Time" when our master negotiator supposedly does his best work. The problem, of course, is that all this fart-arsing about and not signing players in good time doesn't ultimately save the club money. None of the players we are interested in are suddenly going to become cheaper as the window gets closer to closing and we get more desperate to sign someone, anyone!

At this point in time, the only thing that would bring me satisfaction beyond Spurs signing a high-quality player would be to eat Mr. Levy's liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti