To be honest although it is pedantic if you want something to be taken seriously you should really try and present it in the most professional manner you can.
Sad state of affairs though, if they only want to spend money to save their own necks rather than genuinely wanting to do it of their own volition and a genuine desire rather than being pressured.
It's having an effect because the mainstream media are asking the same questions now. All that negativity isn't good when you are trying to sell the stadium to investors and for massive televised events.
Apologies but what article is being quoted here?
It doesn't even need to be a new owner, the bare minimum should be to have Levy step aside and let Paratici do his job. Obviously not every penny can go into the first-team squad directly but just hand over the reins to Paratici (which is what we thought was happening when he came in) and let him get on with it.
It's a DM to me mate.
See I knew that Levy/ENIC would pick up on the ‘noise’, I really don’t get people who say the singing and protesting against levy doesn’t make a difference, it absolutely does as does things like O’Hara on sky sports and the THST calling out the board for their ambition, none of it can do any harm and at best it will make them loosen the pursestrings a little more ?.
Personally I don't want ENIC out but want Levy to step away from our transfer business. I want ENIC to keep to their job title assigned to Paratici and let him take control of transfers. I want Levy to stick to the business side of the club and let Paratici to work with Conte and get the players he wants. As long as ENIC provide sufficient funds to strengthen the squad as they did last year. We just need another year like last to complete the rest of the squad.
ENIC are fine we just need Levy completely 1,000% away from the football side of the business and install a chairman who wants to push the boat out and win things and who gets the right people internally to set us up to play good football and to be successful in all football areas : academy, player recruitment ins and outs, manager hires, scouting network etc etc.
Is it possible to have this with Levy remaining as chairman though? I don't think you could achieve getting him away from being involved in transfers/football decisions contractually and I wouldn't trust a gentleman's agreement type deal either. I agree it's Levy that needs to change more than ENIC. The whole board needs replacing/reshuffling IMO.
Ah sorry mate I thought it was a new article following on from mail sport's one yesterday.
Unfortunately, Levy being anywhere at the club will always result in doubts as to who exactly is in charge of what, is he getting his sticky little fingers involved and all sorts of uncertainty. I think it's fair to assume he can't help himself, anyway, IMO he won't give up that sort of control so we find ourselves in the situation where the best thing for the club is that he goes. Proper goes. None of this cosmetic stuff, not now, the time for that has long since past. It's unfortunate for him and it's unfortunate for us that we're where we are with it all, it's a shitty situation all round.
I don't see why not. He seemed to step aside more last year but for some reason noises are that he's getting involved again. At the end of the day he still is employed as the chairman and if Lewis wants to hand transfers to Paratici he can. Its pretty pointless to have a form of football director if the chairman is the one making calls on transfers. Levy can still sign off to ensure we're not overspending but if it's a player Conte wants and is in our budget it should be a no brainer. The philosophy around transfers has to change and we need to act more like a big club. I feel Levy still has the old stadium mentality and can't get used to big spending now the new stadium is open. We should be able to flex our muscle now and compete with the rest. We need more players for now and not always one for the future with sell on value etc.
