To be clear, I was not reiterating the "Levy is cheap!" cliche. He indeed made ambitious managerial appointments. But he's not fond of poaching other teams' managers mid-season. As I said, I suspect that's because he doesn't see managers as assets like players are. They add value to those assets with their management/coaching, but they're not assets themselves. So paying (for) them huge wages AND compensation money doesn't make sense. He's technically right, but missing a small detail there. They cost peanuts compared to players, they really do. A very recent example, Amorim, a young and promising manager, costed nothing compared to our two prospect signings from Championship. I'm not even talking about signing an established player that would walk right in to starting 11.
Like you said, Levy indeed puts great emphasis on the use value of managers. But IMO he has a slightly unfounded fear of paying compensation for a manager and eventually taking a bigger loss because of it.Because that risk exists for players as well. In the last 2-3 years alone we lost tremendous amount of money from players we couldn't sell for anything close to what we paid. I don't believe that paying compensation for a manager is inherently more risky than paying for a player.
I agree with the unpleasantness of having an interim in charge for an extended period. It sends the fans and players a wrong message. That season is essentially a write-off. Maybe it is justified, maybe there are indeed no good options available anywhere. But,in general, I still would like to see him more proactive with these mid-season appointments, rather than taking a glance at the market and shrugging his shoulders. Because those long interim tenures really are a bad look for the club. They plummet fan interest, they raise questions about how the club operates in general and so on. Hopefully he finally realized this.
