Are Spurs turning into Juventus-on-Thames?
The Athletic FC Podcast
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🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by Jack Pitt Brooke and James Horncastle to discuss the peculiarly sensible transfer dealings of Tottenham Hotspur and what has caused Daniel Levy to rip up his playbook.
In the pod hear about the triumvirate of Levy-Conte-Paratici and how the Italian duo have influenced Levy for this transfer window. James tells us about Conte and Paratici's history at Juventus and the developing relationship Spurs are forming with Serie A. Whilst Jack gives insight on why exactly the stadium is also key to Spurs' development - and why in particular Lady Gaga is an aid to it all too.
All that plus a little bit on United - because it wouldn't be The Athletic Football Podcast without it would it?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.2 | Well, you may have noticed something odd, this transfer window. |
| 0:05.9 | Tottenham have a new way of doing deals. |
| 0:07.7 | They're doing them early. |
| 0:08.9 | They're bringing in experience, and they're doing it before selling any other players. |
| 0:13.1 | Now, that's not historically the Daniel Levy way. |
| 0:16.4 | So what's changed? |
| 0:17.9 | The Athletics Tottenham correspondent Jack Pitt Brook, an Italian football writer James Horncastler joining us for a dive into their transfer dealings. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:31.3 | Tottenham fans, would you like some transfer news? It feels like he's kind of ripped up his playbook that he's relied on for the last 20 years to get to this point. Tottenham have agreed a deal with Everton to sign Rich Charles. They had to back him. Otherwise, he would have walked away, I think. Ivan Peresich is in London today to have a medical. These two guys, they're just very credible. They're winners. Strap yourselves in for the ride. This is how we have to do things now. |
| 0:59.6 | All right then, Jack, let's start with you. As you say in your piece, who is the chairman |
| 1:04.4 | of Tottenham and what has you done with Daniel Levy? Yeah, it's been a very, very different |
| 1:10.0 | transfer window for Tottenham so far. Daniel Levy's |
| 1:13.8 | been running Tottenham since 2000. That's when Enoch bought out Alan Sugar's steak. And I don't |
| 1:18.9 | really think they've had a window like this, not just in terms of the amount of money they've spent, |
| 1:23.1 | but the timing they've spent it on, the type of players they've spent it on, signing early in the window, |
| 1:29.1 | which is something they never used to do, not leaving it to the end, and just kind of throwing their weight around in a way we've never really seen from Tottenham before. |
| 1:36.5 | So it's been, it feels like he's kind of ripped up his playbook that he's relied on for the last 20 years to get to this point. |
| 1:42.9 | Did that instruction come from |
| 1:44.5 | Enoch then? What was the process in leading up to how they have dealt with this transfer window? |
| 1:50.5 | Well, I don't think the instruction would have come from Enoch, just in the sense that Daniel Levy is, |
| 1:55.8 | I think he can run Tottenham as he sees fit with the proviso that before this summer, there wouldn't be much |
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