Well Done Daniel Levy

[walworthyid]

Its good to see so many people supporting Levy's astute financial management of our club that has seen us go from a laughing stock with an ageing, poor quality and overated squad of has-beens and never-wills, to a team that has just secured a cl spot and our 4th season in Europe in 5 years, a new training ground being built, well along the way to building a new stadium, a squad full of young talented players on long contracts and a sensible pay structure.

I'm so glad that Cole has joined the dippers and that we never allowed ourselves to be held to ransom.

Levy is the main man and I will trust his decisions.

 

[tony_parkes]

In my opinion there were 3 good reasons Joe Cole signed for Liverpool, which let's face it, is why there are posts coming out against Levy's failure to sign him and this excellent thread backing our man, little Dan.

Reasons why Cole joined Liverpool;

1) Money and length of contract. He was supposedly offered around £25k a week more by Liverpool, crucially in my opinion he was also offered the longest contract by them. I don't know about signing on fees but I would assume 'pool weren't lacking in this area either.

2) 1st team action. Ourselves and Arsenal have more competition in our squad for a player of his type. He will be guaranteed more game time at Liverpool than his other 2 suitors.

3) He felt more wanted by Liverpool. They have a desperate need for him at the moment. They can't afford to pay a £15 million transfer fee for a player so were happy with big wages on a Bosman. They desperately needed a signing, quickly, to begin the new Hodgson era with a high profile acquisition and keep the likes of Gerrard and Torres happy.

In my opinion, our offer was fair, supposedly around £70k a week for 3 years. Given his injury record I think that was fair enough. Supposedly Arsenal's was £80k for only 2 years.

Levy did nothing wrong, Liverpool's desperation for this signing made them push the boat out far beyond his worth in the current climate and with the players recent lack of form and injury problems.

Having said that, I would have been fairly happy if we'd have signed him but he wasn't a necessary signing and certainly not one to break the wage structure for or offer 4 year deals to.

Having a wage structure and a sensible business plan has already reaped rewards for us, it may make us miss out on the odd signing in the short term but the long term benefits will outweigh these. Trust Levy, in general he has done very well for us.

 

[mattspur1]

I love the guy, ironically as much as the manager he sacked Martin Jol. Only mistake he has made at the club. Best chairman around, has the clubs future at heart in every decision, although sometimes hard for fans to swallow.

 

[double0]

I'm so glad we havent gone crazy in the transfer market signing players- id be happy with only a No.9/striker.

Our secret is to let existing players develop further ie the Huddlestones Bale's Modric's Bassong's Dawson's etc of our team.

Players such as Dos Santos will be given a chance instead of JCole which to me is a better move.

 

[EastLondonYid]

absoloutely spot on...

Levy will only truly be recognised after he has gone..top top chaiman!!

 

[worcestersauce]

It's also a cumulative thing, because of his reputation, clubs now know that when Levy approaches them about a player they aren't going to be able to extort silly money from us and so negotiations start on a sensible level and on the other hand clubs know that if they want one of our players they are not going to get them on the cheap if at all.
Classic case was Berbatov who wanted to go but Utd were trying to play us for fools by stringing it out holding back on making an offer fuck us up and panic us into letting him go cheap but instead of that Levy sussed how much they wanted him so went public forced their hand and bum humped them for £30mill; even Sir Alex had to admit that was different.

 

[kezza]

I'm so glad we havent gone crazy in the transfer market signing players- id be happy with only a No.9/striker.

Our secret is to let existing players develop further ie the Huddlestones Bale's Modric's Bassong's Dawson's etc of our team.

Players such as Dos Santos will be given a chance instead of JCole which to me is a better move.

Couldn't agree more. We have some great improving talent and I'd prefer we stick to that and grow stronger than bringing in a new midfielder we just don't need.

 

[Coyboy]

Yeah, damn those English players and English style (that got us to 4th place and the CL for the first time ever) to hell!!

I can't find one post of yours that makes sense. You say we have too many English players then follow that up with 'this is our best squad in years'. Then you say this should be our 3rd or 4th year in the CL cos Jol almost got us there? But he didn't. This could've been our 15th year in the CL if Francis had got us there, but he didn't.

.....COYS

I read Levi and just thought he was talking about jeans.

 

[StartingPrice]

I'm not sure why Levy's getting stick when we've only missed out on one player. The transfer windows open for another six weeks isn't it?

And every club, every year, misses some targets and gets some targets.

Yeah, damn those English players and English style (that got us to 4th place and the CL for the first time ever) to hell!!

I can't find one post of yours that makes sense. You say we have too many English players then follow that up with 'this is our best squad in years'. Then you say this should be our 3rd or 4th year in the CL cos Jol almost got us there? But he didn't. This could've been our 15th year in the CL if Francis had got us there, but he didn't.

.....COYS

I agree with the first part of your post, Bomber, but on the second part I can actually see what he is getting at. We all know that being in the CL league has an impact both financially and in terms of prestige. If we go back to 2005: Everton displaced Liverpool in the top 4, Liverpool only being allowed in the CL the next year because UEFA 'bent the rules' for a big club. The next year, and the year following we finished 5th, and that could so easily have been 4th, especially when the FA forced us to play with a team devastated by food poisoning on the last day, the FA making the announcment, and using an employee known to be an Arsenal fan, actually having the audacity to do it while present at their last league game, when they were the team we were set to replace in the Top 4. Without those two extremely prejudicial decisions the composition of the top 4 over the last 4 seasons could have been substantially different.

 

[tommo84]

When did they change these rules then ?

When Everton got knocked out they had no european football from memory

Not quite mate.

When Everton got beat by Villareal in the Champs Lge qualifiers they went into the Uefa Cup. But back then you had to get through 1 knockout round in the Uefa Cup before you got into the group stage (we had to beat Slavia Prague in the same stage in 06/07). Everton then lost that game too because they were shit, and so they missed out on 2 chamces of European football.

We won't :grin:.

Knowledge is the bomb and I thank you...