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Nah, Levy is still responsible for most of it.
There is no intelligent or cogent argument that says anything other than we'd have still been a lower bottom feeder had he stayed.
I'm sorry to quibble but this just isn't true. At least not statistically.
With his first choice Back 5 Postecoglou's results were consistent with a Top 5 result in the league.
This is further backed up by results in Europe when the Back 5 didn't play once together in the last 3 months of the league season (even though more or less available) but did play together in our last 6 games in Europe in which we were undefeated and, of course, won the actual cup.
There's no guarantee, of course, that this would have been maintained into a putative 25/26 campaign had we kept Postecoglou instead of Frank but to say "there's no evidence" is just not true. There's 2 seasons of data
But it's a minor quibble. I agree with your broader point that we would have been pretty terrible either way. But then I don't believe our major problems are manager related.(or, at least, not entirely manager related)
, regardless of that he got his players playing for him - Frank on the other hand...100% this.
Maybe we should organise compulsory ouija board sessions for all the players to try to exorcise the big bad Ange evil spirit.
Iriola and Maresca also lost to them last season. Bad managers?
Do you who hired both Vinai and Lange? We're losing sponsors because of the grnd promises we've been hearing for the last decade, how the stadium would propel us to the promised land, and companies were piggy backing off that with big sponsorship deals to get in ahead of the future success. They seen that sporting ambition was secondary and pulling their expensive deals. Do you know who made those promises?
Are you a big Poch fan, do you want him back? I suggest you look at the last 9 months of his tenure and the points dropped, when he had pretty much a full team. Using cherry picked games, when almost every manager has those results is daft.
There’s a post on another thread suggesting the sponsors are being lost due to lack of contact from us since Levy left.Do you who hired both Vinai and Lange? We're losing sponsors because of the grnd promises we've been hearing for the last decade, how the stadium would propel us to the promised land, and companies were piggy backing off that with big sponsorship deals to get in ahead of the future success. They seen that sporting ambition was secondary and pulling their expensive deals. Do you know who made those promises?
Who knows, but the sponsors will have been sold the same crap as us, no doubt with a spin on how the stringent PSR type levers that will be implemented by the PL (which we're yet to see, years later), would make us more competitive than those around us.
