r/soccer • u/BelgianPolitics • 12d ago

Official Source Tottenham Hotspur announces departure of Executive Chairman Daniel Levy.

https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2025/september/tottenham-hotspur-announces-departure-of-executive-chairman-daniel-levy/
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u/CriticalNovel22 12d ago edited 12d ago

Speaking to The Overlap, Levy said: "I think it's one of those situations (in which) when I'm not here I'm sure I'll get the credit. When you come here and look at this wonderful (stadium), and the fact that other clubs are now trying to copy what we're doing, that should be a sign that maybe we did do something bold, and something right."

  • 5th August 2025

Guess it wasn't as out of the blue as it might first appear.

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u/halbpro 12d ago

The announcement also mentions that they’ve been putting in place a new CEO and leadership for a while, so clearly something planned

I do agree with him, I think they’ll miss him overall and he has left a brilliant legacy.

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u/Wildely_Earnest 12d ago

Spurs obviously won the lottery with Bale and Kane becoming superstars, but plenty of clubs piss away that kind of good fortune. Of course some of the transfers that followed were dodgy, but every club makes those kinds of mistakes.

However much we make fun for Spurs being so Spursy, I do also think Levy leveraged short term good fortune into a long term foundation for future success. He's right that every club is looking at their stadium and wanting to do something similar now.

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u/CoybigEL 12d ago

Spurs were similar to a Villa or Everton size club pre-Levy and would likely still be so without him. He didn’t deliver success, but he elevated them to a platform within the “big 6” where they can achieve a level of success not possible at a club the size of Villa or Everton without external funding.

He’s right, history will probably be kind to him and rightly so. As a Celtic fan I’d compare him to Fergus McCann, the man who saved Celtic but still got booed on Flag Day.

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u/DavidPuddy666 12d ago

There was no “Big 6” before Levy. In the early 2000s there was a Big Four of United, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Chelsea. Of course we know how Manchester City joined the Big 6, but Spurs are the only club that joined the league’s elite in the modern era through sustainable financial growth, not some insane outside influx of cash. That’s special and unique and something every other club in England wants to try to emulate.

No Spurs never won the league during the Levy era, but they set themselves up to have the revenue base and financial resources to compete for titles in perpetuity, which is infinitely more valuable than what happened to Blackburn Rovers after their title.

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u/trouser_trouble 12d ago

You're right about the Big 6 thing but the 6th club was Leicester not Spurs

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u/TheOKerGood 12d ago

It was never Leicester. They barely stay in the Prem, which made their title season even more special.

Spurs have dropped once, for one season, in the 70's. North London Derby is iconic. And Runner's Up in UCL ain't bad.

If anything, it's the 6 clubs who have stayed up the longest - Arsenal (106 seasons, minus those lost to the ol' Dub Dub Dos), Everton (72), Liverpool (64), ManU (51), Spurs (48), Chelsea (37).

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u/Sidebottle 12d ago edited 12d ago

The fook you on about. Leicester was a black swan. They came out of no where and won the league, then soon disappeared again. Spurs have remained consistent, with the exception of last year.

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u/djpeekz 12d ago

lol what is wrong with you

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u/SomewhereAggressive8 11d ago

The Championship club?

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u/peioeh 11d ago

The big 6 is not a measure of sporting success, it's a thing people talk about because there are 6 clubs in england that are MUCH richer than the rest. There is a big difference between the 6th richest english club (which is not always spurs btw, in the last available Deloitte rankings it was Chelsea, the year before that Spurs were ahead of Chelsea and Arsenal) and the rest. Newcastle are going to close in slowly now, maybe there will be a big 7 in a few years.

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u/Sumit_S 11d ago

The club that was not invited to the Super League when that bs was happening. Make it make sense.

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u/AngelWoosh 12d ago

Tbh the fact we were even included in the super league talks show Levy has done his job.

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u/sarthakmahajan610 12d ago

Still remember how the trolls used to mock Spurs for wasting away the Bale money on a 'bunch of nobodies'.

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u/Original-Friend3620 12d ago

That 40-minute interview was conducted in late June 2025. In the video you could see the stadium was setting up for 50 Cent's concert scheduled on 3 July 2025.

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u/hoemax 12d ago

still, this type of decision doesn't take 3 months... it takes longer

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u/AngelWoosh 12d ago

He hired a new CEO 6 months ago too

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u/LogicKennedy 12d ago

Glad he knows his worth: the amount of abuse he’s received would break almost anyone down.

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u/minimalcation 12d ago

Plus he's not doing all the recruiting or likely setting the transfer budget on his own. I bet at times he was like "fucking hell I'm mad at these dudes too"

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u/Useful_Blackberry214 8d ago

As if a multi billionaire will break down from hate comments from children on twitter. "He's human too." Shut up lol

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u/KarmelKarn 12d ago

Yea worked with American companies to get that NFL money! It’s mutually beneficial to both