Ruthless Daniel Levy sacking revealed by former Tottenham coach

Daniel Levy sacked 13 different managers during his 24 years as chairman of Tottenham Hotspur and one of the assistant coaches let go has recalled the ruthless way it happened.

Levy stepped down on Thursday in the final part of the Lewis family's plans to restructure the hierarchy at Spurs to ensure more sporting success going forward. The 63-year-old departed with two trophies during his tenure across his near quarter century stint as well as that huge new stadium and state-of-the-art training complex being built under his watch.

He also sacked and hired a lot of managers and coaching staff and one of them, former Tottenham player and then assistant head coach Gus Poyet, has remembered the way Juande Ramos and he were dispensed with back in 2008.

"In less than a year - it was clearly two big different parts. In the beginning, Juande made a massive impact because after four or five months being in there, we won the League Cup. And I remember Daniel really feeling how special, you know, it was for the fans to win a trophy. He was absolutely delighted," said Poyet when speaking to oddspedia.com.

"Then before I started the second season, I think that Daniel Levy supported the coach a lot. He gave him money, money, money and I mean money without going too far. Modric came into the club so it was it was really very good negotiations and a quantity of players coming but in the football side it didn't work. Like I said, it's two parts, completely opposite.

"Getting to the maximum of winning a trophy and not being able to win a football game with a lot of money spent. Me, my relationship was professional, very respectful. We didn't have any issues. From day one to the last, he was very honest with me."

He then added: "It was a little bit strange how we left. I don't know if you know. We were sacked the night before of a game. We were at the hotel. We were ready to sleep and play a game the next day, to manage the game, and we were called down after 10pm to be informed that we were leaving.

"It was quite a strange feeling leaving that hotel at 10.30 at night. Which means he was ruthless, proper, OK? But like I said, super professional. Never a problem, never an issue. Everything was spot on. He respected all the contracts."

The Uruguayan admitted that it was a difficult and unexpected moment in his coaching career which knocked him for six.

"I felt miserable. I felt miserable when I was leaving the hotel with my luggage. I was supposed to be thinking about tomorrow and going home," he said. "It was strange. You know, sometimes if it was Monday morning after a game and you get a phone call from the chairman, you're thinking, oh, oh, oh…Maybe we'll get in the sack.

"But you have a phone call in your room at the hotel, to come down. You're thinking, oh, something happened, maybe the game is called off or maybe something, but you will never expect to get sacked the night before of a game at the hotel. That for sure, that was totally unexpected, even if the results were not good enough. I said it at the time and I'm saying it now. Sometimes you deserve to go. It was totally unexpected at that moment of the day."

Poyet now hopes that the Tottenham fans who have chanted for Levy's departure over the seasons do not regret those words.

"I would say to the fans, I hope what is coming in not worse. Because then maybe you're going to have to start singing Daniel Levy’s name to get him back," he said. "The good thing for the newcomers and the new chairman and the new people in charge is that all the magnificent training ground and a stadium is done.

"So, now, I suppose there is going to be more focus on the team, we'll see. Many, many people spend money, and only one or two win things every year. So, let's see if they can do it."

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