- Mar 18, 2005
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I am mostly in favour of ENIC. I believe they have tried to grow the club on and off the pitch within our means.
When they took over our turnover was vastly behind our rivals. It's easy as fans to call the board cheap but if we don't have as much money as our competitors then we can't outspend or match them. This wasn't helped by the emergence of the billionaire chairman using the club's as a means to improve their living situations. Without Abramovich it is very possible we could have been a CL team years ago.
So growing the club off the pitch was vital to us competing and ENIC have done this well.
ENIC/Levy have struggled on the playing side. It took Levy a season with a caretaker manager to put his hopes into Arnesen to run the football side. Since his departure the transfer and management side has been all over the place.
We have the stadium now and in the first 2 windows have spent money. But we need a proper transfer setup. We need to be buying young players again. If between Levy and Jose they cannot get a good setup in place then Levy has probably taken us as far as he can.
When they took over our turnover was vastly behind our rivals. It's easy as fans to call the board cheap but if we don't have as much money as our competitors then we can't outspend or match them. This wasn't helped by the emergence of the billionaire chairman using the club's as a means to improve their living situations. Without Abramovich it is very possible we could have been a CL team years ago.
So growing the club off the pitch was vital to us competing and ENIC have done this well.
ENIC/Levy have struggled on the playing side. It took Levy a season with a caretaker manager to put his hopes into Arnesen to run the football side. Since his departure the transfer and management side has been all over the place.
We have the stadium now and in the first 2 windows have spent money. But we need a proper transfer setup. We need to be buying young players again. If between Levy and Jose they cannot get a good setup in place then Levy has probably taken us as far as he can.