- Jul 29, 2005
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I was sick of hearing about Moutinho during AVB's reign. Moutinho this Moutinho that. Bugger me if that was all that was required to fix the problems we were experiencing?
I agree that Moutinho alone wouldn't have solved our problems.
I think the reason that that particular transfer sticks in the craw of a lot of us is that when Harry was replaced by AVB it really seemed as if Levy was showing some serious ambition and was fully behind AVB's vision for the club. it was genuinely exciting. Moutinho was the player AVB wanted to build our team around, and we bungled the transfer despite it looking very likely to go ahead. That moment really filled me with a huge sense of disappointment, because to me it represented the unfortunate truth that Levy wasn't willing to truly back AVB.