New Football FanCast columnist Geoff Parker is hopeful that
rumours of Comolli parting company with Spurs will prove the best bit of
business that Levy has carried out in months.
They say you don't need
a weatherman to tell you when it is raining and you don't need to be Steven
Hawkins to work out where Spurs' failure and problems lie this season. The
multitude of balls up that took place in the summer window is the reason the club
is struggling and the finger of blame has to point squarely at Sporting
Director Damien Comolli.
I'm amazed in all
honesty and bemused that the Frenchman is still at the football club. Whether
Levy has tried to save face and wasn't looking to be seen to make a kneejerk
reaction is open for debate, but if his job simply requires the acquisition of
personnel, then he is solely accountable. There is no point trying to hide
behind it, or look to blame agents or outside interference, the failings on the
pitch is proof of the pudding of a catastrophic faux pas this summer, which has
taken our club back years.
Make no mistake it the momentum and foundations built up by Martin Jol and Juande Ramos' Carling Cup win has been undone in the last few months of madness. This was our time, the opportunity to make a statement of intent and bring in the type of players that will take the football club up to the desired level. What Comolli has managed to do is build a Ferrari chassis with the likes of Bentley, Modric, Pavlyuchenko and Dos Santos, but pull out all the major components of the engine to make it tick - it is a total disgrace and Ramos has clearly found what his predecessor first claimed, after he was ruthlessly axed a little under 12 months ago. Comolli is a spanner in the works and the sooner he is thrown out the better.
My only hope that comes out of Comolli's sorry tenure at the football club, which only yielded four successes in three year, is that the football club bring an end to this sham transfer set-up and put all the decision making and power back in the hands of the manager. Why I understand the logic behind it and why it must seem appealing to Levy, it is time to realise that if we want to be a top four club then we have to start acting like one and given that neither possess a Sporting Director then it seems a nonsense that we see it as the best way forward. Damien Comolli has done nothing positive for the football club (in my opinion) and that is why I hope that the rumours that his sacking are imminent reaches fruition in the coming days - it will certainly be the best bit of business that Levy has rubber stamped this year.