You sir, are talking my language!
Stick a pipe up the players arses (who we want rid of), pump in some water and ACV or Coffee, flush the pebbly fuckers out, before they cause worse than club wide IBS...
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You sir, are talking my language!
Stick a pipe up the players arses (who we want rid of), pump in some water and ACV or Coffee, flush the pebbly fuckers out, before they cause worse than club wide IBS...
Poch wants control over almost everything at the club his ego won't allow for a DOF.
But, the middle path is having a DOF who is not the sole voice of player recruitment, but the guardian of discussions and dealings, an even voice amongst the group. Pleat would work for me to be honest (getting in a top, top scouting team to feed into the table).
Baldini was also partially brought in at AVB's request.
As many have pointed out... Didn't go too well did it.
Yet...
Let's face it; all the Levy out brigade really want is for us to spend more.
That the owner doesn't splash his cash about like a sovereign state; this doesn't make our chairman incompetent or tight.
Now a large part of the stadium project is taken care of, Levy will be less occupied by other matters. I think the more pressing matter is improving our scouting system. Since bringing through Mase, Bentaleb, Kane, Dele, Winks etc. and countless players getting international call-ups on Poch's watch, we never did become the go-to club for Europe's hot young prospects like I'd hoped we would.
That said, if a DOF can ensure a more holistic view between academy, scouting and senior team then I'd be interested much the same.
You can see our new spending power in the summer with Ndombele and Lo Celso. Also the money was there for Dybala but the legal side let us down.
I really think we as fans just need to be a little more patient.
The debt has been restructured, and the money is now flowing in.
We need to give Levy and Poch 2 years to build another team.
Someone along the lines of Ralph Ragnick would be good. A good and experienced sporting director but who also has experience as a manager. So he knows both sides of the coin so to speak.
The guy at Norwich is also very interesting.
The problem is our owners, not Levy, Levy is doing his job trying to save money, that's the issue.
It's not a personal thing on Levys part, I would actually say he has done quite well given his restrictions, the problem is the owners but obviously we can't keep Levy if the owners go so imo, both have to leave.
Basically, we need new owners imo.
It's not a personal thing on Levys part, I would actually say he has done quite well given his restrictions, the problem is the owners but obviously we can't keep Levy if the owners go so imo, both have to leave.
Basically, we need new owners imo.
Well as long as things stay the same, nothing will ever change, a new manager will probably give the club a lift, we might even win a trophy but over the long term things will not change, we will always end up back in this same situation with these owners.
I think that was like the first window in a long time where Levy was not involved at all with transfers. His wife was very sick or something like that so he took the entire summer off and the sporting director at the time had free reign with the Bale money.
Or something like that.
Is that the reason? Come on, we are talking about £85m being spent by one man and the owner is off sick!
I am bored with people saying Levy won’t spend like City United and Chelsea. We cannot do that, if we did we would be going down the Leeds route.
Personally I would rather big CL games than winning the League Cup. It meant something once but not anymore. City have such a good squad that they can give it a good go.
We are now the only country with a League Cup. The year after next, the League Cup winners will go into the new European competition known as the European Conference. Basically a competition for all the smaller clubs plus the 8 places taken out of the Europa League. The prize is to qualify for the next season Europa League. Marvellous!
obviously does not apply to teams who qualify for CL or EL..
The time is fast approaching when the League Cup will not exist.
“I don’t see how Poch can train and prepare a team and look after signings” but doesn’t though according to him! He’s got nothing to do with ins and outs but I’m not sure that’s 100% true?
Yeah there’s an old boy wonders about the playing parks with his whipped watching the kiddies play football looking for talent...........well think that’s what he’s doing?
a DOF only really works if the club have a way/style of playing,(little Swansea used to have), then the club appoint managers that play that way, so that almost all the players will fit into a team that any manager the club appoint
but what normally happens is a club picks one style of manager when he is sacked they bring in a manager who plays different style, so they need to change many of the players
but what normally happens is a club picks one style of manager when he is sacked they bring in a manager who plays different style, so they need to change many of the players
Been thinking about this the past few days, if we really want to ever win trophies we need better investment in the squad and a manager that can get the best from those players coming in and I don't just mean an arm around the shoulder, I mean tactically.
My fear is Harry Kane, I can see him leaving for trophies if we don't show we have ambition and he isn't the sort of player you can replace imo, I know many say "but we just can't compete with City or Liverpool" the thing is, we can, maybe not in terms of raw spending power but we can certainly compete in the transfer market, we just need to buy more suitable players that will actually improve us and have a better transfer strategy.
It's not about spending ridiculous sums of money, United are proof that it doesn't always work it's about identifying our weaknesses and improving them and when we come to buy a player, stop the last minute haggling, get them in and give them plenty of time to settle.
That's why I think a DOF will improve us, Levy needs to step away from transfers imo, give the DOF a budget to work within and then sign the players based on that.
We also need a better scouting system clearly, I think Levy has this pipedream in his mind that our "world class youth facilities" will mean that we build a team from mostly home grown talent, it is never going to happen, living in a land of delusion if he thinks that's possible, the whole reason scouting exists is simply because the talent at youth level in local areas doesn't exist.
My fear is Harry Kane, I can see him leaving for trophies if we don't show we have ambition and he isn't the sort of player you can replace imo, I know many say "but we just can't compete with City or Liverpool" the thing is, we can, maybe not in terms of raw spending power but we can certainly compete in the transfer market, we just need to buy more suitable players that will actually improve us and have a better transfer strategy.
It's not about spending ridiculous sums of money, United are proof that it doesn't always work it's about identifying our weaknesses and improving them and when we come to buy a player, stop the last minute haggling, get them in and give them plenty of time to settle.
That's why I think a DOF will improve us, Levy needs to step away from transfers imo, give the DOF a budget to work within and then sign the players based on that.
We also need a better scouting system clearly, I think Levy has this pipedream in his mind that our "world class youth facilities" will mean that we build a team from mostly home grown talent, it is never going to happen, living in a land of delusion if he thinks that's possible, the whole reason scouting exists is simply because the talent at youth level in local areas doesn't exist.
But, the middle path is having a DOF who is not the sole voice of player recruitment, but the guardian of discussions and dealings, an even voice amongst the group. Pleat would work for me to be honest (getting in a top, top scouting team to feed into the table).
Baldini was also partially brought in at AVB's request.
As many have pointed out... Didn't go too well did it.
Yet...
Let's face it; all the Levy out brigade really want is for us to spend more.
That the owner doesn't splash his cash about like a sovereign state; this doesn't make our chairman incompetent or tight.
Now a large part of the stadium project is taken care of, Levy will be less occupied by other matters. I think the more pressing matter is improving our scouting system. Since bringing through Mase, Bentaleb, Kane, Dele, Winks etc. and countless players getting international call-ups on Poch's watch, we never did become the go-to club for Europe's hot young prospects like I'd hoped we would.
That said, if a DOF can ensure a more holistic view between academy, scouting and senior team then I'd be interested much the same.