Lord Alan Sugar says to Daniel Levy, you are fired!
Lord Alan Sugar has commented on Spurs involvement in the European Super league and fans on boards, and it isn’t good.
Lord Alan Sugar has waved his Apprenticeship finger at Daniel Levy and said he thought it wasn’t very clever. In fact, he branded the failed European Super League plans as a “total joke” and said that he spoke to Levy to try and get him to reverse his decision. And I bet he didn’t say it in a wishy-washy way either.
“I’m delighted that all of the [Premier League] clubs pulled back,” said Sir Alan when speaking on White and Jordan on talkSPORT on Wednesday. “Tottenham, my club, what they did was say, ‘hold on a minute, include us, please. We’re a big club, we want to come in, so don’t just leave it as the Manchester clubs, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal, we want to come in. I spoke to Daniel Levy, and I said to him, ‘Daniel, this is not a good idea. You have an opportunity here of being magnanimous and pulling out and saying the fans don’t want it, so we’re going to come out’. It’s an absolute, total joke and an example of the Americans trying to take over our game.”
He then added: “All I did was send him [Levy] a WhatsApp message. “We communicate quite a lot with each other on certain things. But I said to him, ‘the fans are more important. In our game in England, we’ve got enough money. There is enough money being thrown at the league by the various TV companies, overseas rights, UK rights. You’ve got Amazon, BT Sport, Sky, the BBC. Quite frankly, what they [the clubs] need to do is come up with some solution of how to tailor what they pay for transfers and wages. I know it’s an old, old story, but what can you do?”
Concerning fans of boards
As you know, many fans have called for supporters on boards, and an excellent example of why they want this, is so they can stop the club from making decisions like they did over the European Super League, however, Lord Sugar is not in favour of it at all.
He said, “That is totally ridiculous to have fans on the board; it’s absolutely totally ridiculous. At Tottenham, now we’ve got a new stadium with 60,000 capacity, we’ve got 60,000 managers that all know best, and they know better than anybody else. You don’t want them anywhere near the board. The board has got to be controlled by the owners, and at best, has got to have some director of football that actually has been in football and understands football. I at the tail end of my ownership of Tottenham, I had Martin [Peters] as one of our ex-players and West Ham players on the board, and I had David Pleat on the board, people of knowledge who know what they’re talking about.”
Well, that told Levy. But will he take any notice of the Apprenticeship king? I don’t think so. But what do you think?
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