It seems to be about Dimitar Berbatov. Pehaps its also the board slapping Jol a bit for showing interest in the Chelsea job in the spring.

Alex Ferguson has had to make a stand against big players over the years (including Beckham and Keane).

As a board you either support the manager or the players. Spurs have lots of good players. The reality is you can always do without an individual player. Good managers are few and far between. Player rotation is part of the top level game now. If Berbatov cant take that he needs to go see how many more games he would get at Man U.

Jol needs maybe 10 games to show this team can work. He should be fully supported until proven otherwise.

Mike Smith, Oxford, UK

disgraceful behaviour by the board. they know nothing about football. as a fan ofcourse i was dissapointed with loosing the first 2 games but even i realise that with all the injuries and new players it was going to be a difficult start for us. All Levy has done is to put even more unnecessary pressure on the shoulders of the manager and players. The board have only themselves to blame if this causes us to get bad results, players decide to ask to be transferred and potential targerts refuse to play for us. Let's face it who would want to play for these mickey mouse business men. I also find it laughable that Levy has the gall to say that "As a result of what has happened in the last few days, both the players, Martin, the coaching staff and the board all feel we will be stronger for it,” when it was a situation which he was 100% responsible for causing. I hope Jol and the players put the board in their place by getting some good results.

rudy, london,

I'm a man utd fan, but i gotta say that martin jol is one of the best things to come into the premiership for a long time. he's the perfect manager for spurs. he's proved that over the last 2 seasons. ok so you lost 2 games - big deal! did everyone forget that its a long time to the end of the season. teams lose games, we're not all invincibles - and they couldnt even keep it up (i forget who they lost to...). Anyway, my point is that without Jol, Spurs will be a top 10 side not a top 4-5 side. give him some space and let him do what he was hired to do. end of the day, who else have you got out there? and more importantly, after the muck thats been flying about, who'd be willing to take it?

seth taylor, london,

so amateurish get rid of the board
spurs need stability not egos strutting their stuff in europe talking to other managers
my full support behind MJ and the players
spurs lets grow up and keep dirty washing in house
come on boys lets have a win at man u
we want stability

Ira Rapp, london, england

Once again, Levy the intellectual leviathan shoots himself in both feet with unerring accuracy.

Harrow Cockerel, Harrow,

I am a season ticket holder at spurs and have been for 15 years at least. I think this whole thing has been blown out of proportion, i believ that the board members probably sounded out ramos for the future if things do not go well.
I like Martin Jol but I do not think he is a world class manager as his tactics are just not good enough. Also he has had plenty of money and bought goodness knows how many midfielders and yet we still have a not very good midfield.
Also last season our problem was conceding goals and what does he do? go and buy a striker.
If I was a board member and was giving a manager all that money then I too would expect results.

Linda, brentwood,

the first victim of over spending cud be martin jol...the earlier the clubs realise that there is no sense in spending and rejecting the virtues of stability and continuance the better..wait until others follow...

a, london, england

What were the issues that Levy felt needed to be "brought out into the open"?
The fact that the board had high - perhaps unrealistically high - aspirations and ambitions for Spurs this season (ie: top four breakthrough or bust)? Did they only just decide this? Wouldn't it have been worth deciding this at the begining of the summer - not the begining of the season - and perhaps even communicating it to the employees who were expected to make it happen (that would be Jol and the players), along with the consequences for failure?
Levy is a joke. He's the perfect leader to ensure Spurs place as the laughing stock of the Premiership - in fact he's better than that: he's aimed higher than that. Now he's made them the laughing stock of European football. There's ambition realised for you.

Kwev, London,

I am a spurs fan but i do worry that other fans have rose tinted glases. Jol is the best manager we have seen for a long time, but that does not necessarily mean he is the right man to take us forward. There is no denying the massive improvement since he took over but are two 5th place finishes and only 1 league win over a top 4 side really a good enough return for a team who's spending over the last three years has only been superceded by Chelsea. Looking towards sundays game does anyone really believe that we will topple Utd? It is not just the defeats but the performances that has led to this knee jerk reaction. Watching them play the first 2 games was like watching a newely promoted side. Jol has talked of installing 'grit' for a long time but the side still have more leaks than Thames Water. That together with the absence of a top world class midfield player will only lead to more woes. Spurs it appears will forever be a side who look towards next season......

Grant, London,

i find the whole situation totally surreal.I have been a life long spurs fan , yes i actually love the club.martin Jol is the best manager at spurs for many, many years, spurs lose the first two games and the board panic. They may be good business men but excuse me,if i dare to say that you know very little about football.Are we about to see another board wreck the club? where is your long term planning
? .For once we have a decent side a world class manager,who actually speaks english.i would love to be chairman,because you guys would be out of work.

peter smith, copenhagen, demnark

as normaly, the times are twisting facts and getting things wrong again. some papers are factual, others are just fictional, you can find them under the same section in the library as titles such as Of angels and demons, and spiderman

rob, essex,

I am glad this has happened.
I personally am glad this seem like fiasco of events has happened so early because the reality of the situation is that Tottenham Hotspurs Football club could easily find themselves with just three points from five games in the toughest premiership since its inception.
That’s the bottom line.

We have a thirty-six thousand-seat stadium that isn’t going to change anytime soon so revenue through sponsorship and league placement is really our lifeline. We sell or loan our homegrown championship winning reserves to our poorer neighbors whilst pay over the odds for average players, (could someone tell me how much difference in class Chaz Lee or Charlie Daniels were lacking in comparison to Gardner and Rocha?) which puts even more pressure on the flow of money and when we do make any kind of progress financially it is generally by selling one of our best players to the detriment of the team.
Leigh Mills V Gareth Bale? It goes on and on.............

Sam Mollison, Orlando, Florida

Capello coaches anti-football and is certainly not the way that Spurs want to go. Success the Chelsea way is a non-starter for me and most other Spurs fans...

SpandoSpur, Woking,