Yea unfortunately I think that's a likely outcome.I think we won’t spend in Jan, then sack Ange early Feb. Then Levy’s excuse will be he didn’t want to spend in Jan on players for a manager who was on the verge of the sack.
Saves him another transfer window of expenditure.
No I don’t think that’s their thought process.I think we won’t spend in Jan, then sack Ange early Feb. Then Levy’s excuse will be he didn’t want to spend in Jan on players for a manager who was on the verge of the sack.
Saves him another transfer window of expenditure.
But equally, if the fans start to turn on Levy then the first thing he’ll do is sack Ange for exactly the reasons you’ve described - it takes the pressure off.Sacking Ange, whether he deserves the sack or not, gets Levy off the hook
everything calms down, the next sucker is appointed, we feel as a fan base, the only decent thing to do is support him, the atmosphere in the stadium calms down = Levy off the hook!!
Sacking Ange is like putting a sticky plaster on a leg broken in three places.
Even if you think Ange should be fired this morning, that act only puts the clock back to zero before we are in exactly the same position again in 18 months or less and on and on and on.
Hold your nose back Ange and keep the bloody pressure where it belongs - on Levy and this f****g board.
Completely trueBut equally, if the fans start to turn on Levy then the first thing he’ll do is sack Ange for exactly the reasons you’ve described - it takes the pressure off.
I don’t think the stadium itself makes any difference. Arsenal miss Highbury but now they are good the feeling is good. We have just been so poorly run since the stadium build that everyone has lost hope.
Where the stadium is a concern is now Levy is making so much revenue and now the league is so competitive it might be no longer needed to make Europe anymore. We might be better financially being mid table now rather than 4th as coming 4th in this current environment could mean a lot of transfer and wage spending which would be too much for Levy. So the stadium might give the opportunity to make us more average for Daniel. 10th might be the new 4th.
Agree, he’ll do ‘just enough’ to keep us in perpetual mid table to Europe at best and it’ll keep the wolves away but signing off a few January transfers which in the scheme of things will barely make a difference.I’ve been a Levy watcher for long enough to know that when the natives get restless he tends to deflect attention by either sacking the manager or investing in a quick splurge on players.
Sacking Ange looks too high-risk to me for all sorts of reasons. May be wishful thinking but I think we’ll invest in 2 or 3 more established players in Jan.
The stadium is a masterstroke, no honestly. I knew that whilst studying it in my Town Planning masters. The Viability report was showing huge income, at 'a conservative estimate'. The stadium income is now even higher than those said.
When you read the level of the detail Levy went into on the stadium with the head architect talking of hours long meeting on just the lift doors then you know trophies isn't number one priority sadly.
His time is up and hopefully for good. I genuinely never want to see him at the club again, same way I did with Sir Alan Sugar.
financially sustainable.To anyone thinking Levy is trying to run this club sustainably, in what way is hiring a manager, signing a bunch of players that don’t suit that manager, sacking and subsequently paying off that manager, hiring another, taking a loss on previous players to get rid and repeating the cycle over and over sustainable?
To anyone thinking Levy is trying to run this club sustainably, in what way is hiring a manager, signing a bunch of players that don’t suit that manager, sacking and subsequently paying off that manager, hiring another, taking a loss on previous players to get rid and repeating the cycle over and over sustainable?
Important to remember this when the net spend stat gets mentioned. It's high, yes, but that's because most of the expensive players have left for pennies.It’s sustainable in theory.
1 buy players on low wages who are young
2 develop players into better players who are worth more but still on low wages thus grow the asset value of the team.
3 sell them if they want to leave for good money which can be reinvested into more potential talents.
For this to work however you need great scouting and a clear long term football strategy and the board get the fuck out of the way and trust the experts. We don’t do that so in the end we get players and managers that don’t work out then have to finally sell them without making much of a profit. There is something remarkably amateurish about us compared to say Brighton for instance.
Does the Chairman of any other top football club behave any differently to Levy?Look at Zak Brown yesterday celebrating the constructors title win on the podium after years of hard work to make McLaren great again, contrast that to Levy who just sits in his chair emotionless, both are businesspeople at heart but one is a competitive born winner, the other is absolutely not and that culture seeps into every pore of our club which is why we don't win, because the culture is wrong and the top(Levy) don't know how to be successful at a football club.