You have absolutely no idea what that actually means in practicality though.
You don’t know if he is involved in setting an overall budget, individual budgets, something in between, transfer negotiations, contract negotiations, all or none. If you believe some of the posters here, Levy does everything but set up the cones in training. Yet not one poster here professes to have any experience of club management, have never set foot in a club front office, have no experience of ownership or, to my knowledge, even knows anyone who has. Their only experience is watching a highly edited docudrama on Amazon. The projection is pathetic.
George, this entire post reeks of bias I am afraid and you aren't seeing this from a neutral perspective, it just comes across as defensive because your setting impossible standards to meet for criticism to be valid.
Daniel Levy is the chairman of the football club, it is common knowledge at this point that he has had personal input on deals for players and also has made club signings (why would managers not play players that they wanted to sign? That makes no logical sense.)
It is also common knowledge from interviews with previous employees that he has actively stopped transfers from happening even against recommendations from people with more knowledge than him on the subject, for what reasons we don't know, but it has happened, that is a fact.
He himself in the documentary said that he has the final say on matters, he said it about the hiring of Pochettino and that he got "lucky".
He has also said in his most recent letter to the supporters that ultimately the blame is his.
It seems you want personal verification, 24 hour a day camera access to his personal life and a hand written letter from Daniel Levy himself about what he does at the football club before you even begin to acknowledge that he MAY have a negative impact on the footballing decisions at this club.
Whilst I agree that it's likely nobody here has worked with him or knows the true inner workings of the club, if that is the bar that has to be met in order for people to come to conclusions based on other evidence that doesn't meet that criteria, then we will NEVER have anything remotely verifiable, it's an impossible bar to meet and I think it's set that way because it comes from a place of rigid bias.
Levy would NEVER explain in detail what he does at this club day in/day out and expose himself to criticism, it would be incredibly stupid to do such a thing.
This is my personal opinion, Levy should have NO input on footballing matters whatsoever, he should set a budget for the football side of matters and let the experts do their fucking job within that budget and remit, end of discussion.
Anything else is just a continuation of what we have already seen and which we know to be failing.
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