I’m surprised that a lot of you seem to think levy would have saved us this season.
I think a lot of you are clinging onto the 08 season where he was very reactive and got Redknapp and a ton of experience in the January window to get us out.
That doesn’t work anymore, you can’t operate a club by being reactive. If levy’s still here what likely happens is that Paratici gets more power and we get Tudor in November and move for a few players in January, even then I doubt we do too much, levy oversaw a 17th place finish and a sloppy January last year where he allowed a diminished squad to limp through before acting at the end of the window.
There’s no way de Zerbi becomes our manager if levy’s still here, and I also think his reactive actions don’t save us last season. In 08 there were a ton of shit clubs and managers in the league to farm off, that’s not the case anymore. The Steve Bruce’s, Tony pulis, “go out and run” style managers are gone and almost every other club has been proactive for years now while levy let us rot. Forest just about escaped last season and they had a better squad than us, the squad that was built by levy.
Vinai could have done way more, in far from impressed, he shouldn’t have tried to bring Paratici back and should have sacked Lange for a better director immediately, but his diagnosis on the performance part of the club is bang on the money and a lot of us levy outers have been calling it for years.
