Simon Jordan hits back at Tottenham fans over Levy after ‘Absolutely Incredible’ verdict
Simon Jordan has stood up for Daniel Levy after Tottenham fans continue to slam the Spurs chairman.
The 62-year-old has been at the helm in North London for 24 years and has certainly helped cement the Lilywhites in the Premier League elite in that time.
With that being said, supporters have grown impatient with the lack of trophies in N17 given that 17 years have passed since the League Cup win in 2008.
Jim White raised this point live on talkSPORT (6 February), when he said: “Kinsky, Danso and Tel came to Tottenham, hardly household names, any of them but anyway they did business. I got in a cab yesterday, London cab drivers have their ears to the ground.
“He’s a Tottenham fan and he says ‘I heard your mate, Jordan, on the show the other day saying what Daniel Levy has done at Tottenham is absolutely incredible, it’s off the charts what he’s achieved at that football club.’
“So as I get out the cab, his final words to me were ‘Get him to elaborate.’ So why is it off the charts?”
Jordan hit back as he replied: “I think Tottenham Hotspur as a football club, despite the fact that they haven’t won much, have created an opportunity to be a very successful football club built upon an infrastructure that Daniel Levy has put into place.
“They’re a club that was sold for £22million, comes back a few years later he’s doubled it. Joe Lewis hasn’t pumped endless amounts of money into Tottenham Hotspur.
“He’s built this football club that is, on the whole, operating at the higher level of the Premier League, built this stadium, created this training ground, built this ability to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on players probably the most commercially well-run football club that you’ve got.
“Does it need a change in ownership? Possibly. Or a change of agenda that can possibly perhaps wipe out the debt that Tottenham have got. I think it is unfair to look at it from one prism.”
Simon Jordan defends Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy
There is plenty of positives that the chairman has done during his time in North London which have grown the Lilywhites as a club.
As a result, this campaign under Ange Postecoglou has been an anomaly of recent years with Spurs sitting in 14th place in the Premier League.
The anger at this lack of positive performances has begun to boil over in the stands but that doesn’t mean there is going to be any change.
With the stadium and the commercial positivity surrounding the N17 club, Levy has got what he wants and isn’t likely to move on any time soon.
In other Tottenham news, a Postecoglou jibe looks even more bizarre now after a duo were nominated for awards.
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