Tottenham news: Should there have been 'more' under Daniel Levy?

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The news that Daniel Levy is no longer in charge at Spurs swept across our fanbase.

There was shock, joy, bemusement, there was even a feeling among some that all their Christmases had come at once. The end has arrived for the most successful, unsuccessful chairman in our history - perhaps even in Premier League history.

But what do we do now? I've always wondered at the end of a film when the credits roll after the 'baddie' has been vanquished, what happens next? Do the newly liberated just go back to work and eat their lunch?

As an adult, I've not known this club without him. He has been the lightning rod on many occasions for our anger. For some, getting him out has become their entire Spurs identity, now with him gone we are left thinking - was Daniel Levy good?

He walks away having created a conglomerate of a football club. On one side of the scale there are the ticket prices, NFL and the F1 race track, the other two trophies and a bucket of broken dreams.

Levy built a well oiled money-making machine. He excelled in those areas, it was what made him tick - but it didn't make us tick. We wanted more success on the green stuff.

I have felt for quite sometime that football matters had passed him by and this summer was the moment for him to walk away. His legacy will live on in concrete. The stadium and the training ground are magnificent feats of engineering and ambition, but when it came to team building, he didn't have the same vision or determination.

What he has achieved at Spurs is incredible. The club has completely changed for the better, but there will always be the nagging feeling that there should have been more. We squandered too many chances on the pitch, and it is those moments that tarnish what he did off it.

It is the right moment for his credits to roll. Maybe in five years we will look back and say - "all of this was because of Daniel".

But today, most of us are just happy he has gone and we can get back to supporting.

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