At this rate, Harry Kane’s family will be bigger than Daniel Levy’s fan club. Actually, there is every chance it already is.
Everton versus Spurs should be some occasion on Monday night. Earlier this year, the home chairman was, apparently, advised to stay away from Goodison Park because of fears for his personal safety.
If the away chairman is considering a visit, the reception from his club’s contingent of travelling fans is hardly likely to be warm. Bill Kenwright, get out of our club, Daniel Levy, get out of our club, the Everton and Tottenham fans can do a duet, a bit of disharmony harmony.
Of course, the main problem with those requests is that they normally require the target to sack himself or herself, and that normally does not happen. In Levy’s case, though, it might be for his own good that he somehow takes himself out of the firing line.
You don’t get to be as successful as Levy without having the hide of an old leather football but surely there is only so much vilification you can take? In the main, the criticism is not undeserved, the Spurs fans who want him out are not being outrageously unreasonable and for the man responsible for its happening - and that man is Levy - the Fabio Paratici farce is a sackable offence.
They might be hanging on to fourth place but, right now, one cursory look at the state of Spurs is a damning indictment of the man in overall charge. No permanent men’s team manager, no women’s team manager, director of football banned from football, star striker running down his contract, ticket price hikes widely expected. Not so much a car crash as a pile-up.
Don’t forget, this will be a 15th season on the spin without a trophy and most bookmakers believe either Newcastle or Liverpool will pip Spurs to a top-four position. But in his 22 years at the helm, Levy has had his moments, not least when he appeared to go against general advice from within the club and appointed Mauricio Pochettino in 2014.
And while the shiny stadium is now being used as a state-of-the-art stick to beat him with, it is a magnificent venue for football (as well as Beyonce concerts, NFL matches and underground karting, of course). But apart from the money he makes - and his salary for 2022 was reported to have risen £500,000 to £3.265million - this can surely be no fun for Levy, just as it cannot be for Kenwright.
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Yes, the personal gains are deeply alluring but Levy has pocketed an absolute fortune from the club. Remember when he was given a £3million bonus on top of a £4million pay packet in 2019 after the stadium was completed? While he might be getting richer and richer, the level of respect from the supporters for Levy is getting lower and lower.
And no matter how commercially monstrous it becomes, the fanbase is at the heart of a football club. And when that fanbase fundamentally turns against you, it is time to go.
For everyone’s sake, not least his own, it is time for Levy to walk away.
