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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.


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Frankie
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Definitely and the whole of
Definitely and the whole of Spurs will be raising a glass when it is announced,he got Jol the axe and he is doing his hardest to do it to Ramos. Time to revert back.

Don
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Im surprised you found four
Im surprised you found four good players, I can only think of Gomes and Bale.

Jeff
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It will certainly be Levy's
It will certainly be Levy's saving grace ahead of the AGM to get rid of him.

yiddownunder
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One can only hope hope this
One can only hope hope this axing rumour is true, if theres any a chant from the terraces is for his axing, then lets get behind the team and manager, and stop this rot, then we can see how good ramos actually is

leso
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HEAR-HEAR!!
HEAR-HEAR!!

nanaspurS
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please,please,please axe
please,please,please axe him, and let us get our glory glory days back!keep him and we will be playing championship football next season.PLEASE AXE HIM!

Shannon
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Maybe you're right. But how
Maybe you're right. But how do you - or anyone else - know what it is that Commolli does? I find the calls for his head from fans very puzzling, since nobody knows what he does.

DannoYid
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It's very easy to look for a
It's very easy to look for a scapegoat at this difficult time, but from what I understand, Commolli's role is to go out and find potential players and to compile scouting reports on those suggested by other members of the management team. I believe Levy is primarily responsible for negotiating prices with buying and selling clubs - and in holding out til the last minute for the best price for Berba he left Comolli with a list of "approved players" that'd been scouted and identified as targets, presumably in some form of order in terms of preference - but just a few hours in which to land one. Given our reluctance to pay "over the odds" (sometimes at least) and the equal reluctance of other sides to sell their best players in the last moments of a window, DC was left with an impossible job. Yes, it should've been done earllier, but if he's not been told he can spend, his hands are tied. My point is - will making him a scapegoat and getting rid of DC actually improve our fortunes on the pitch, starting with the Stoke game? No is the simple answer to that. The whole club (and since when did the word "football" have to go before club? Are you that filthy gooner Alan Smith?) from the top down; Chairman, Board, Management, players and fans all need to pull together, the fans need to play their part in dragging the player's performances up - and the players need to pull their fingers out and stop expecting points to come to them - and start going out and winning those points - there are no pushovers in this division any more (and other such cliches). There are various camps all looking to aportion the blame for the current mess somewhere - some want Levy and the Board out, others Comolli, some Ramos and others are already writing off the likes of Modric and Bentley. I say; this team is a work in progress. We finished the window 4 players light - but we need to sign the right players, not just anyone. In January, we'll hopefully bring in the players we're missing (Ramos knows what we need, so does DC and so does DL - it's just a case of getting them in), the summer signing should've settled, adapted and gelled - and we'll be nearer where we want to be. Sometimes you have to take a step back to take a step forward. If Ramos could just start picking the players for his formation or the formation for the players, we'll start climbing the table....

DannoYid
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It's very easy to look for a
It's very easy to look for a scapegoat at this difficult time, but from what I understand, Commolli's role is to go out and find potential players and to compile scouting reports on those suggested by other members of the management team. I believe Levy is primarily responsible for negotiating prices with buying and selling clubs - and in holding out til the last minute for the best price for Berba he left Comolli with a list of "approved players" that'd been scouted and identified as targets, presumably in some form of order in terms of preference - but just a few hours in which to land one. Given our reluctance to pay "over the odds" (sometimes at least) and the equal reluctance of other sides to sell their best players in the last moments of a window, DC was left with an impossible job. Yes, it should've been done earllier, but if he's not been told he can spend, his hands are tied. My point is - will making him a scapegoat and getting rid of DC actually improve our fortunes on the pitch, starting with the Stoke game? No is the simple answer to that. The whole club (and since when did the word "football" have to go before club? Are you that filthy gooner Alan Smith?) from the top down; Chairman, Board, Management, players and fans all need to pull together, the fans need to play their part in dragging the player's performances up - and the players need to pull their fingers out and stop expecting points to come to them - and start going out and winning those points - there are no pushovers in this division any more (and other such cliches). There are various camps all looking to aportion the blame for the current mess somewhere - some want Levy and the Board out, others Comolli, some Ramos and others are already writing off the likes of Modric and Bentley. I say; this team is a work in progress. We finished the window 4 players light - but we need to sign the right players, not just anyone. In January, we'll hopefully bring in the players we're missing (Ramos knows what we need, so does DC and so does DL - it's just a case of getting them in), the summer signing should've settled, adapted and gelled - and we'll be nearer where we want to be. Sometimes you have to take a step back to take a step forward. If Ramos could just start picking the players for his formation or the formation for the players, we'll start climbing the table....

JD
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WE ARE A CLUB THIS SEASON
WE ARE A CLUB THIS SEASON THAT HAS STARTED AT THE BOTTOM AND WORKED IT`S WAY DOWN !! WE NEED TO SELL TO THE SUPER SUPER SUPER RICH WHEN THEY ARE AS RICH AS THIS THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL !! WE NEED TO FINISH WITH THE DOF RUBBISH GET A TOP WELL RESPECTED ENGLISH SCOUTING BOSS WHO HAS CONTACT`S ALL OVER THE WORLD AND IS RECOGNISED ALL OVER THE WORLD IE JACK CHARLTON WHO COULD SPOT A REAL TOP CLASS ACT AT 1000 YARDS IF HE WOULD ACCEPT OF COURSE OR AT LEAST SOMEONE SIMILAR !! WE NEED THE DEPTH OF THE TOP FOUR BUT ALSO THE QUALITY OF THE DEPTH OF THE TOP FOUR NOT OUR WORLD CLASS AVERAGE RUBBISH THAT LEVY AND COMOLLI BRING EVERY YEAR CHEAP NO BODY`S BOUGHT FOR A FORTUNE SOLD ON IN MONTH OR SO FOR RECORD BREAKING LOSS !! THE FEW DECENT PLAYER`S WE HAVE AND THE DECENT WELL PROVEN PLAYER`S WE BRING IN SHOULD BE PLAYED IN THE POSITION`S THEY WERE BOUGHT FOR AND THE POSITION`S THEY WERE SCOUTED FOR !! OUR MANAGER HAS TO BE A DECENT MANAGER WITH HIS PAST RECORD BUT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN SOME OF HIS TACTIC`S ARE VERY VERY QUESTIONABLE , HIS ENGLISH MUST NOT BE GETTING ACROSS TO THE DECENT PLAYERS BECAUSE THE VERY AVERAGE PLAYERS LIKE JENAS ETC ARE A TOTAL DISASTER THEY CAN`T BRING THE MANAGER`S INSTRUCTION`S ONTO THE FIELD , I DON`T BELIEVE EVEN AN INTERPRETOR LIKE POYET IS THE ANSWER EITHER !! HE CAN`T EXPRESS ANGER THAT RAMOS WOULD WANT THE PLAYERS TO RECEIVE AND RIGHTLY DESERVE !! SELL LEVY WE WANT TO PROGRESS UNDER A RICH OWNER LIKE MAN CITY WILL BE COME JANUARY SO FLOGG NOW AND GIVE SPURS THE TIME THEY NEED TO IDENTIFY THE WORLD CLASS PLAYERS THAT WE NEED BECAUSE YOU CAN`T AND WON`T PAY WORLD CLASS WAGES HENCE ALL THE REJECTION`S FROM THE WORLD CLASS PLAYERS YOU PRETEND YOU ARE AFTER JUST TO APEASE THE SPURS FAN`S !!! WE KNOW YOU BETTER THAN YOU KNOW YOURSELF LEVY SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!