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Not sure. If he were to turn it around, they could make a film and call it the shortshanks redemption..Was shortshanks at the game?
Not sure. If he were to turn it around, they could make a film and call it the shortshanks redemption..Was shortshanks at the game?
I'll have a go.... Levy is a success! Why would someone (Lewis) get ridLiterally who is defending him? I don't think there's a single person on this site that is anymore.
But I suppose having a more pragmatic reaction apparently is defending Levy now.
The issue is he is hiring people like Munn and Paratici so even if he steps away from the football side he's influenced it greatly by his commercial/business based hires rather than hiring football people who fit our clubs DNA.I'D be ok if he didn't get involved in the FOOTBALL SIDE of things. Fed up with thinking he knows better than football people than they do.
As said above he's done lots for the club that are really good for the team etc but he has to climb abord transfers and selling of our deadwood. Just give the new bloke/D.O.F a budget at the end of the season for him to work with during the summer and the other transfer windows. Let them do what they can to make us winners.
Yes I can see the logic in your post.The issue is he is hiring people like Munn and Paratici so even if he steps away from the football side he's influenced it greatly by his commercial/business based hires rather than hiring football people who fit our clubs DNA.
I remember Levy quoted saying one of the reasons for hiring Paratici was that he negotiated really well against Levy, sure a DofF should be good at negotiating but primarily they should be good at football strategy and aligning with and understanding a clubs DNA and Paratici has failed at that 100% and Munn seems to have zero experience of the PL so surely that is another dud hire.
Until Levy actually does step away completely and we have the right people on the football side then Levy's roots of business and profit will reign over us and we will continue to be a rudderless meandering ship with no sense of where we are going on the football side, it will continue to be mixed messages, scattergun and a mess.
The problem is if you limit yourself to PL-experienced board directors then you are probably either having to really really convince someone like Paul Barber, who may not wish to come, or go for someone who hasn't been great at their previous roles.The issue is he is hiring people like Munn and Paratici so even if he steps away from the football side he's influenced it greatly by his commercial/business based hires rather than hiring football people who fit our clubs DNA.
I remember Levy quoted saying one of the reasons for hiring Paratici was that he negotiated really well against Levy, sure a DofF should be good at negotiating but primarily they should be good at football strategy and aligning with and understanding a clubs DNA and Paratici has failed at that 100% and Munn seems to have zero experience of the PL so surely that is another dud hire.
Until Levy actually does step away completely and we have the right people on the football side then Levy's roots of business and profit will reign over us and we will continue to be a rudderless meandering ship with no sense of where we are going on the football side, it will continue to be mixed messages, scattergun and a mess.
Yep all fair points mate although Munn has worked for very small clubs as part of the City Group and the clubs he's worked for aren't in the slightest comparable to us.The problem is if you limit yourself to PL-experienced board directors then you are probably either having to really really convince someone like Paul Barber, who may not wish to come, or go for someone who hasn't been great at their previous roles.
People like Edwards work at DOF level, because they work more in the actual footballing strategy rather than structure/finances, so they are not an option here.
I expect Munn, having worked for City group, to have studied and gained knowledge from his time there on how to build a succesful PL club.
He will certainly have observed models and gained insights.
I think youll find that list goes on and on !Such a coincidence. Dele, VJ and N'Dombele finished with football after having signed the lucrative contracts with us.
It appeared that music was blared the minute the game ended, so hard to tell from watching on the box. Say fans there today felt like pulling the stadium apart after today's debacle.Any anti Levy chants at end of game??
Sanchez got more shit than Levy. There’s no appetite for protest. It’s a day at the panto.Any anti Levy chants at end of game??
FYPHas he made a good decision inyearshis life?