You just agreed in another thread that we're at best judging them on limited information. I really feel this warrants more support rather than less as we can't be sure.
Again and again it boils down to them not putting money into the club with you. I wish you would, if even just for the sake of argument, accept that this is the premise we're working under. Levy can't really change this, he's not the man with the massive amounts of money. His decisions are made within the current ownership model.
Levy gets **** when we don't sign the players the head coach/manager/DoF supposedly wants. But when we sign players that don't work out he also gets ****. This to me seems wholly unfair unless Levy is the one identifying the targets, and I really doubt he is.
We are judging them on limited information. This, I entirely agree with. However, I personally don't see much point in supporting them when they have been proven to have made bad decisions.
Look, it is about the ownership model: it cannot be divorced from any discussion of Levy/ENIC, and trust me, I've tried to, because it makes me somewhat miffed just thinking about it. Levy and ENIC deserve our support when they make good decisions. Levy and ENIC do not deserve our support when they make bad decisions. There is no ground where fans have a reason to continue to support them even when they make bad decisions: that luxury is only given to owners who put significant amounts of their money into the clubs that they own, since it gives fans the feeling that their owner is invested in the club, and thus deserves some slack.
Our owners derive their legitimacy purely from their ability to make good decisions: there is almost nothing else they offer to us, apart from that: and from their side, we're nothing more than an enormously profitable, almost no-risk investment, nothing more. This is the reality.
So, what logical reason can we have to Figbird them their bad decisions, when they have been proven to have made them? The relationship is clearly flimsy. They have constructed this club on the idea that it can run perfectly well without any input from them: and they've succeeded in doing that, and for that they deserve credit. But by doing so, they've also obviated the need for them to be around, and have clearly taken us as far as we can go using this model: and since they don't intend to put much more of their own money into the club, the best I can expect from them is that they make half-decent decisions from now up until the stadium's finished, sell up, take their enormous profit and go.
The way they have run this club since we hit the heights in 09/10 has been eye-opening: in my eyes, they have blown a golden chance for us to enter the big boys' club, have f*cked over successive managers in their rush for results without requisite investment, and have shown that we've hit a glass ceiling under them and can go no higher. They don't get a reprieve from me for that.
Thank you for 2001-2010. F*ck you for 2010-2015. Take your profit, and leave knowing that you took us as far as we could go: using our money, of course, but you did it. That's all.
Anyway, I'm trying to draw down my ENIC posts in this festive season. It's the season of cheer, after all, and I'd like to keep things cheery. If you do wish to continue the conversation, please PM me: otherwise, I'd rather just shut up about it for now.
Edit: and as for Levy not identifying targets, I sincerely, sincerely, sincerely doubt Harry particularly wanted either Ryan William Nelsen or Louis Laurent Saha in 2012.
