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When he said it’s time to set off in a new direction and play football, it did sound like a dig towards Conte.

I remember he said in an interview that he hated Italian football, and this video didn’t sound that scripted either.
Sounds like my kind of manager tbh.

Other than his top level experience, my one niggling doubt is his apparent stance of never compromising his tactics. Hopefully he can still be flexible when needed.
 
Levy's managers have been polishing turds since 2001.

Hoddle got saddled with;

Jalal, Bunjevcevic, Keller, Acimovic, Blondel, Ricketts, Bortolozzo, Hirschfeld, Toda & Mabizela.

Jol got saddled with;

Fulop, Defendi, Limberski, Hallfredsson, El Hamdaoui, Cerny, Rasiak, Dervitte, Rocha, Alnwick, Prince Boateng & Gunter.

Ramos / Redknapp got saddled with;

Gilberto, Dos Santos, Bostock, Cesar Sanchez, Frazier Campbell, Stipe Pletikosa, Massimo Luongo, Bongani Khumalo, Souleymane Coulibaly, Yago Falque, Saha & Nelson.

AVB got saddled with;

Fryers, Holtby, Paulinho, Chiriches & Lamela.

Poch got saddled with;

Vorm, Yedlin, Fazio, Stambouli, N'Jie, N'Koudou, and so on up to the present day.

ENIC FC

Specialists in failure.
What a shocking waste of money.
 
Levy's managers have been polishing turds since 2001.

Hoddle got saddled with;

Jalal, Bunjevcevic, Keller, Acimovic, Blondel, Ricketts, Bortolozzo, Hirschfeld, Toda & Mabizela.

Jol got saddled with;

Fulop, Defendi, Limberski, Hallfredsson, El Hamdaoui, Cerny, Rasiak, Dervitte, Rocha, Alnwick, Prince Boateng & Gunter.

Ramos / Redknapp got saddled with;

Gilberto, Dos Santos, Bostock, Cesar Sanchez, Frazier Campbell, Stipe Pletikosa, Massimo Luongo, Bongani Khumalo, Souleymane Coulibaly, Yago Falque, Saha & Nelson.

AVB got saddled with;

Fryers, Holtby, Paulinho, Chiriches & Lamela.

Poch got saddled with;

Vorm, Yedlin, Fazio, Stambouli, N'Jie, N'Koudou, and so on up to the present day.

ENIC FC

Specialists in failure.
Swap Lamela (how dare you) with Soldado and this is bang on
 
Sounds like my kind of manager tbh.

Other than his top level experience, my one niggling doubt is his apparent stance of never compromising his tactics. Hopefully he can still be flexible when needed.
This is a misconception about him, he doesn’t compromise on his overall philosophy of attacking football, he can and will change tactics if he has to.
 
That's all well and good but where are the new players going to come from, Japan or some other weak league?
Could be from any league. The comparative strength of that league doesn't necessarily have a bearing on the ability of the player. Mahrez, Kante, Modric, Fernandez and a plethora of other top quality players ALL came from weaker leagues.

Isn't Brighton's Japanese forward from a weak league? Caicedo?

I don't give a shit what league they come from. If they're good enough then they're good enough.
 
Could be from any league. The comparative strength of that league doesn't necessarily have a bearing on the ability of the player. Mahrez, Kante, Modric, Fernandez and a plethora of other top quality players ALL came from weaker leagues.

Isn't Brighton's Japanese forward from a weak league? Caicedo?

I don't give a shit what league they come from. If they're good enough then they're good enough.
Then why should we bother chasing Maddison or Raya?
 
So why bother with Maddison then?

Let's get someone from Tonga instead.
If he's better than Madison then why not?

Why spend £60M on a player if you get the same, or better, output and results from someone who cost £6M? Especially when we've seen that spending shit loads is far from a guarantee that you'll get what you think you're paying for.
 
Hands up anyone on here that wants to use that term having read the link I've posted?

He already has.

Are you?
I wouldn't have a problem with it, particularly as he's explained the context he used it in.

I think he's wrong, as Levy has actually made the club bigger and stronger, outside of what we have on the pitch, but that doesn't mean that he's used the word in the context you've applied to it.

You're a bloody good poster Guido, I mostly enjoy reading what you have to say as you don't follow the herd, but I disagree with you here mate. You're applying a context that was never there.
 
If he's better than Madison then why not?

Why spend £60M on a player if you get the same, or better, output and results from someone who cost £6M? Especially when we've seen that spending shit loads is far from a guarantee that you'll get what you think you're paying for.
Ok so we should focus on cheaper players from 'the rest of the world' rather than Europe or South America, or maybe from Bristol Rovers, like Gary Mabbutt.

I'm all for it.
 
Yeah woe is us.

Marooned on the largest island in the world. Natural resources in abundance, great weather, great economy. All on our own with no pesky neighbours to annoy us.

Meanwhile Mother England... Small rain soaked island in the North Sea and sharing borders with the bloody Welsh and Scots

Woe is us. World's happiest convicts.

:ange-arms:

But snakes and spiders and crocs and killer koalas, probably, well would you turn your back on one?

Also, technically isn't it a continent? Greenland is the biggest island, colder for sure but less deadly animals....and Aussies, so it has that in it's favour.

:pochsmirk:
 
Hopefully he likes about five of our players and hates the rest. Then he takes levy for a walk along the skywalk and dangles him over the edge by his ankles to get him to agree on gutting the squad.
Or hopefully he can actually coach our under performers. Howe has showed that you can coach the likes of Joelinton and Almiron. There were always players there and I’m sure we have unsolved talent
 
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