That's fine but you need to stop getting personal and throwing around the sexual references, it's just really weird behavior and unnecessary.
Passion?
And this is from the last two weeks, there's plenty more...I don't think you need me to go back and get those quotes either.
If you're up for a proper debate I'll probably take your arguments seriously if you cut down on the personal/weird shit.
That's not a fact, that's just pure speculation, you're speculating that we would be automatically better and would be 6 poitns better off, you don't know that.
I'm all for pointing fingers at ENIC for not bringing another CB in by the way and happy to accept that as criticism but you have to keep the same energy across the board. If your logic is that we would have been better off with proper CB cover then you should accept that it's a collective failure that Ange wanted Sanchez out and was happy to sanction the transfer, it's also on Romero for acting rash and getting himself sent off leaving us short in that area.
This is the problem with your argument it's incredibly myopic, you can't just blame one party and ignore the other factors, as I've always said everything this club comes down to is the collective, so the successes and the wins are down to everyone including the players/manager/board and its the same for when we lose or mess up.
Also ambition isn't just spending money for the sake of it IMO, it's such a subjective and mis-used term. Ambition for me is also backing the manager's vision and by all accounts he is incredibly happy with the state of the squad and has gone on record and said himself that you just simply can't do everything in one window, it's just not realistic.
You wanted another striker to come in, the manager wanted Johnson to cover the forward areas, we just have to accept that. What the board actually did was back the manager, something you guys have been asking them to do so what's the problem?
The striker we were heavily linked to is Orban who had a hot streak but he's been found out in the Belgian league, did you want us to buy him? Would you be happy for us to take a punt on a player who was a risk and then suddenly turned out to be crap?
If find the energy of Spurs fans who are so vehemently Levy out now a bit misplaced and a kinda forced, if you look at the state of our club currently we are back on the up, everything we have asked him to do he's done, he's put barriers in place between himself and the football side, he's improved the recruitment so that we have a strategy, he's put the focus back in the youth teams, he's hired a manager who plays on the front foot and has managed to get the fans back onside, we are a club on the up and that should be enough for people to accept that he's trying to change the outlook for this club.
But what I find a bit strange with you is that you predicted that we'd finish bottom half this season, we are actually over achieving massively according to your prediction so I don't see why you get so angry when we have set backs, you should in fact be satisfied because we are exceeding your expectations, you should be happy at our progress shouldn't you?
I did criticize Romero for getting sent off, I was very scathing about him. And as for selling Sanchez I wasn't particularly happy about it at the time because time was running out in the window and I was sceptical that we would sign another CB after VDV.
Sanchez was often an accident waiting to happen but I'd still prefer him to Dier any day of the week and twice on Sundays. He also would have fitted the high line a lot better as he's quicker, more physical and generally better in 1v1's. He also had a good pre-season in Ange's system. If it was really Ange's decision to offload Sanchez then yeah it was a dumb move without getting in another backup and he takes as much criticism as Levy for that.
So I'm not sure where you get the impression that I don't criticise others around the club. It's all there in black and white.
Having said that reading between the lines the reason Ange was happy to sanction the selling of Sanchez is he's been told as he mentioned in his presser during the summer and re-iterated recently. that we need to trim a lot of chaff from the squad before we look at incomings.
He was probably thinking if we get Sanchez off the books that could lead to a better CB coming in. And that's what
should have happened and you don't seem to be disagreeing with me on that score.
I didn't want Orban, never said I wanted him. Not sure why you are referencing him. There is a big wide world of strikers we could have gone for. But that's not for us fans that's for the scouting team isn't it?
Use all the wondrous technology and find somebody who fits Ange's system.
Johnson scored what about 6 goals last year for Forest? As I've said before I like the lad - I think he has potential and I acnowledge that Ange wanted him, but he wanted him on the wings providing assists and chipping in with hopefully 10 or so goals. He is not going to slot into CF and do the same job as a Son, so that just leaves us with Richarlison when Son is away. That
could be a disastrous month for us. That isn't a big logical leap.
When we sold Kane I was kind of resigned to it and I said at the time that it was fine providing we could make his goals up in the round. We were never going to attract a player as good as Kane to do the same job that was obvious. So what you do instead is you pick up another solid striker worth 10-15 consistent PL goals, between him, Son and Richarlison you have a little bit of cover. And you have the goals coming in from the wide areas from the likes of Kulu and BJ.
Ange's system also means you are getting goals from your full backs and its all adding up to replacing the 25 goals you've lost from Kane. But you still need Son chipping in with his share and if he's injured we are basically fucked.
We are in short at CF, I don't think that's even seriously debatable. Hell, people were crying out for a backup to Kane and Son for window after window before we even lost Kane. So we are in an even worse place in that particular position in the side now. Why?
I think you have to look at the chairman.
Ambition doesn't neccessarily need to be about spending £100m on a Rice... although by your own statement that's probably going to be a difference maker for that lot up the road
You are right it means getting the players that the manager wants that fit his system.
These players could be £20m pound "cheap" players if they are the right fit. But they have to be the right fit for the here and now, and not just cheap because Levy loves the bargain bucket.
Let's not pretend he doesn't, he has a looooong track record of this.
I can guarantee if you gave Ange a quality backup CB and CF tomorrow he would be delighted with that.
He's not "happy" with the squad he's just playing the hand he has been dealt as part of what was agreed between him and Levy at his job interview.
He's not got the currency in the bank to start making demands, he keeps re-iterating the same point that we need players to go out and we need to work with what he have and develop young players.
This is the mission statement as laid out by Levy. Because Levy doesn't want to spend money. He wants to do the bare minimum. He wants another Poch that will squeeze 110% out of every player and get us back into the top 4 which will keep the wolf from his door and keep the stadium packed with tourists.
That's the reality.
If you can't see that then we are never going to agree. But it's just so in your face that this is the way the club is being run. I can't help you if you can't see it.
As for my prediction, I simply had no idea just how good Ange and some of the new aquisitions would be. Nobody could honestly claim they could see the 360 degree turnaround from the dour football of the last season to this. I'm still dissappointed though.
It's just a real shame that we didn't supplement the squad a little more, you never know what we may have achieved.
That last sentence is the story of ENIC through most of their tenure.
