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The stadium and covid hit us hard financially.... it was just bad timing I guess. Unlucky?This is actually a real possibility. Unless the new manager coming in has had time to prepare and done his homework.
Projections based on the stadium games we managed to play with full capacity before Covid indicated that we would make around 90 mil a year from just league games or something like that (probably closer to 70 once you factor in things like staff and upkeep). So a global pandemic hitting us right after we opened it is definitely very close to the definition of bad luck/timing.The stadium and covid hit us hard financially.... it was just bad timing I guess. Unlucky?
Yep. So many swore it was the right thing to do. & got grumpy with others who said it would be a mistake. Things like....."Signing no one was a masterstroke"
That was the kind of shit continuously peddled on here for months after that window by certain posters
Most of which seem to have disappeared these funnily enough
A central pivot of Winks-Sissoko again.
This is actually a real possibility. Unless the new manager coming in has had time to prepare and done his homework.I wouldn't say it was clear for Levy. For all we know a new manager could come in and refuse to sell any squad players until he has had a season to work with them to get the best out of them.
Do those figures include other stadium events ?Projections based on the stadium games we managed to play with full capacity before Covid indicated that we would make around 90 mil a year from just league games or something like that (probably closer to 70 once you factor in things like staff and upkeep). So a global pandemic hitting us right after we opened it is definitely very close to the definition of bad luck/timing.
A positive is that the loans are tied up long term, and once we are able to open the stadium up decently again we should be able to start making some of that money back fairly quickly.
I wouldn't say it was clear for Levy. For all we know a new manager could come in and refuse to sell any squad players until he has had a season to work with them to get the best out of them.
This is actually a real possibility. Unless the new manager coming in has had time to prepare and done his homework.
The line of thinking comes from Poch, Jose and now Mason playing Wanks, Sissoko and Dier.
Sorry wasn't going after you but was more the thinking of a new manager. Surely there is more than enough evidence that these guys aren't good under any manager.
A central pivot of Winks-Sissoko again.I wouldn't say it was clear for Levy. For all we know a new manager could come in and refuse to sell any squad players until he has had a season to work with them to get the best out of them.
It was so amazing when people would claim that all of this stuff didn't mean what it plainly meant."It's strange because my feeling is the worst feeling I've had in the four a half years that I've been here," he said. "It's the worst, my feeling, but it's the best start ever for the club in the Premier League. It's so strange, no? I think in the past I felt better.
"I don't know why, it's so difficult to explain -- [it's] because of the circumstances, because many things happen, because we're disappointed that we're still waiting for the new stadium when the expectation was to be there from the beginning of the season.
"Many things happened in the summer, there are many things that make myself not in my best mood or humour. I know I've always been funny with you and I have a good relationship with you but my feeling is not the best. I had better feelings in previous seasons.
"With the circumstance that happened in the last years, I think the club is not focused completely on winning titles or games," he said. "We have a lot of focuses and you know very well that when you are competing with sides like we are in the Champions League and Premier League, the most important thing is to fight in the same conditions as others.
"Today, we spend a lot of energy on many things. One is to win games, but it's not the priority. For us [as a coaching staff], yes. But the club need to be all focused on trying to win titles.
"I don't have the answer about how we are going to act when we move there [to the new stadium] -- that question is not for me.
"But it's easy to see in the last few years how we act in the [transfer] market, how we act in everything, and how the other teams were acting. That's the difference.
"Maybe when we arrive to the new stadium in the future we will be in the same project, or we are going to act the same as other teams, like Liverpool, City, United, Chelsea and Woolwich.
"That is my wish and I hope for the club, for the fans, for everyone, to be available to fight in the same condition as the other clubs. You will only really know if you are good enough or not when you fight with the same conditions.
"If not, it's too difficult to see. Only you are good because you are competing in the last few years, and the frustration is massive because [despite having] less in every single aspect, you are there, but it's not enough to win or achieve the level that you want."
I've had this notion for a while that there is a toxic group of experienced players in this squad, it's been alluded to multiple times ... I was particularly interested in the documentary when Mourinho was seemingly surprised at Sissoko's influence in the dressing room.Its clear that this summer a number of popular players in the squad will leave - Sissoko, Aurier, Dele, Rose and potentially Dier. Are we finally flushing out the trouble makers?
Its clear that this summer a number of popular players in the squad will leave - Sissoko, Aurier, Dele, Rose and potentially Dier. Are we finally flushing out the trouble makers?