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Woolwich demise coincides with slimy David Dien leaving .
Who would have thought the the guy running the club day to day could make such a difference
OH I think I have already established that
Who would have thought the the guy running the club day to day could make such a difference
OH I think I have already established that
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Redknapp panic hire , need someone to keep us up
Jol took over cos his plan was a disaster and Santini walked saying he had been sold a pack of lies
Conte looking to be a great hire , but off the back of the Nuno 8th in line embarrassing shambles
Poch a well researched , right man at the right time hire
Levy blindly stumbled into two hires, felt pressured into Conte as the crowd turned on him , those who deny Levy / ENIC out chants are in denial
Saying Man Utd and woolwich only had i great hire is ridiculous, they both stayed over 20 years
if we accept Levy had 4 great hires by his brilliant strategy, his strategy is terrible in not
keeping them.
The post I replied to said in 20 years.....
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No , but he is no shining beacon to be proud of either
....And despite the juice you're putting in, that's the extent of your sentiment here is it?
Thrilling stuff.
p.s. No-one's asked you to be proud of Levy anyway.
This is drivel..... You're implying someone else sacked him and Levy wanted to keep him.
On a whim I just went back and watched the 'unveiling ' of Santini.....Its OK Nono. Your only the second most pathetically out of their depth Spurs manager I have ever seen.
My main issue with Levy/Enic through the years is twofold:
1)He is a money man. In his world everything grows out of financial prosperity. A symptom of this is that as long as we balance the books and make a return for ENIC then he will never suffer like the fans. He can justify charging the higher rates for little footballing return. Missing out on Chapions League before and barely making it this time has perhaps woken him up.
2) Levy has had the belief that he knows about footballers like they are commodity assets. This has often caused him to make footballing decisions above the head of various managers. He needs to trust footballing people who aren't necessarily money people.
In football ownership we have to take the long view. If they learn the above lessons (which it looks like they may have thanks to Conte) then all is forgiven.
1)He is a money man. In his world everything grows out of financial prosperity. A symptom of this is that as long as we balance the books and make a return for ENIC then he will never suffer like the fans. He can justify charging the higher rates for little footballing return. Missing out on Chapions League before and barely making it this time has perhaps woken him up.
2) Levy has had the belief that he knows about footballers like they are commodity assets. This has often caused him to make footballing decisions above the head of various managers. He needs to trust footballing people who aren't necessarily money people.
In football ownership we have to take the long view. If they learn the above lessons (which it looks like they may have thanks to Conte) then all is forgiven.
Accepting point #1 on face value; I'm not sure how/why the highlighted part is assumed and ties in....?
......He's a money-man therefore the fans will pony up no matter how shit things get?
Nobody has asked you to defend him , you choose to do so like a Spartan defending Greece , I will not tell you to stop , I expect the same....And despite the juice you're putting in, that's the extent of your sentiment here is it?
Thrilling stuff.
p.s. No-one's asked you to be proud of Levy anyway.
I think he is a vastly overrated chairman , you think he is not .
No I’m not, he walked out on Levy because he said he was lied to , far from the only person to accuse Levy of not being a straight shooter . He wasn’t sacked he told your beloved to do one
That forced Levy to promote Jol
Turned out to be a blessing in disguise , but it was not a well thought out CEO strategy, he fluked it . Then proceeded to sack Jol in the most classless way one can imagine
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....You're being a dick.
There was no defense on my part. I just bigged up Jol and in you swarmed humping my leg rather than challenge the post/poster that was actually making the point about our manager hirings.
Oh shhhhh.... This guff has nothing to do with anything.
You're just acting like a scorned child.... And have continued with such silliness over in the trf tread too.
Stick with what you think rather than projecting my thoughts.... Thanks.
Grow up, you tedious boy/girl/man/whatever.
1) Enic have taken zero £ out of the club so your view of "return for Enic" is misplaced.
2) There is no evidence of this, quite the contrary in fact;
Van Der Vaart transfer
Poch not wanting a DoF
Coutinho transfer
For example.
Ok so his wife gave him an ultimatum, let’s say Santini not Levy is a liar , although one has a rep and the other does not
He went on to be useless, so a shit hire buy our CEO is the best possible spin you can put on the debacle
How many ones were rubbish for us?
Hoddle
Santini
Ramos
AVB
Sherwood
Mourinho
Mason
Nuno
Christ on a bike, he'd have done better with sticking a pin in the Managers Year Book.
Are you sure he's done alright? Really?