Rodgers can say anything he likes now he is firmly ensconced in the Liverpool Job. He is a smarmy cnut but seriously do you think if Levy had come in for him when he was managing Swansea he would have said no? In a way I'm glad we didn't get him. It's Martinez I am more bummed at missing out on.
Yes , I do believe Rodgers would've said no as it were just a matter of time before he would be offered one of the top jobs. I agree with you he is a bit up himself and that in itself has me thinking that a Rodgers/Levy working relationship would soon fail.
When Harry was sacked, I wanted Rodgers at Spurs but I now believe that of the two, Martinez is probably the most likely to have worked with Levy. But even then I feel it wouldn't be to long before Levy ****ed off the Spaniard. Martinez would've wanted to build his squad , not have one foisted on him.
As for Levy moving from one system to another that's only because each time he has been let down by the managers he has employed. Seriously which one should he have kept ? I'm struggling perhaps Harry if only he hadn't hitched up his skirt for England. Despite that we are still better off now than when Levy took over in 2001. I trust Levy to recognise a coherent system if he ever appoints a good enough manager it's just his record at appointing the right man is so poor.
You're making the same error here that many do and that's judging those managers under the working conditions set. It could be argued that Jol , Ramos, Harry and AVB, could all have been kept on longer and had done better had they been shown the support that a manager requires.
We were a dodgy Gooner Lasagne away from CL with Jol but he weren't allowed to hurdle a future set-back. Meanwhile, Comoli and Levy were drooling over the then much talked about Sevilla manager.
They duly got their man and Ramos then won us the only trophy under Levy but then the following summer, after already seeing his chairman sell Robbie Keane, Ramos was further handicapped with the Berbatov transfer on deadline day, I should say, on the last minute of deadline day! And hey, why not throw in a loanee Fraizer Campbell to assure your manager that you're fully backing him. Also, the players were to be allowed their Mac Happy Meals again as we didn't want to upset the likes of David Bentley.
Then Harry. Yes his gob as many had warned , was to eventually cost him his job. Telling his press mates that we should sell Modric on, whilst Levy were still haggling was not a good idea and then there's his flirting with the England job. But at least that particular sacking happened pre season unlike the others .
Not wishing to make this an AVB debate but if you think that when a chairman backs a player who has a history of being a bit of a areshole, over a manager , that's backing the manager then fair enough .
Oh come on you cannot be serious. Levy backed AVB until it became clear that his personal spat with our best striker, when we lacked other options, was clearly detrimental to our results. If we had continued with the Ade freeze out and Soldado up front on his own we would have truly seen a car crash of a season. Honestly mate I feel like banging my head against a wall when people accuse Levy of having treated AVB badly.
I can understand Levy's frustration. We had seen Soldado unable to score and we had Adybayor wasting away on the training ground. AVB took a gamble that Soldado would do the business and it didn't pay off . But AVB had also asked for Ade to be shipped out in the summer as he were not part of his plans. Apparently a transfer did not happen for Ade's personal reasons, that and Levy taking a financial hit probably stopped anything happening . But if the stories of a fallout between manager and player are true and then the owners do not come down on the side of the manager, then the bosses are making the manager's position untenable . You cannot have bosses siding with the staff over management , it just does not work. If Jose had asked for no beanie hats to be worn at Real Madrid team meetings, then I'm damn well sure that Adebayor would've been more than happy to adhere to his manager's wishes
Your last paragraph does you know favours and I know from your other posts you are a decent poster so I won't take it too seriously. Levy was still working for Spurs despite a personal bereavement (the loss of his mother?) and a sick wife. Surely no one can question his commitment to our club.
I'd like Levy to be a little bit more like a Kenwright (Everton) or a Wheelan (Wigan), to show he is also a fan. To see him on the WHL jumbotron's showing some positive emotion wouldn't go amiss. I would also like him to be a little more like these two chairmen in his working relationship with the managers he appoints . Saying that he's been let down time and time again by the managers is getting tiresome now. If he cannot change tact and Enic are serious about their Tottenham Hotspur investment, then perhaps its time they looked at the idea of replacing Levy with another one of their employees.
