Is there any need for such a patronising response? Someone doesn’t agree with your views so you say people who don’t agree don’t have a brain that understands. I really don’t understand the loyalty to ENIC over the actual club. I mean we only live once. Why be so loyal to a business over the football club you chose to support?
I did not read it that way.
I interpreted it as saying that some people are wired not to accept there is (at the very least) a dialectic in play, which is absolutely rife in current society.
On Levy.
I've offered my opinuon before and will do so (albeit edited) here again.
I think he is the greatest businessman/chairman in the PL. What he has built with regards to stadium, structure, facilities and increasing global; presence is actually insane when measured against opur relative lack of success over the last 25years. I'd go as far as to say it is the best job of it's kind any professional sports team has done in that regard.
Where he has been questionable is the depth of his involvement in player acquisitions and sales. He has a buisnessman's head, and occasionally, football requires a risk on the pitch. I think this is a foreign language to him instinctually; it is NOT personal, and I genuionely believe he DOES want huge success for us on the pitch, I really do, but he has a way of operating. I think for many years he was somewhat shielded and protected by those immediately around him AND he was also in charge of a club whose owners did NOT make large 'donations' like many of our Prem breatheren have received. Truthfully? You'd have to blame the Lewis family every bit as much as him. They have always known whon they have running the club, and what his skillsets are, and in that regard they have made out enormously whilst not exactly lumping large wads of cash into the team/squad. There is an argument where you could say that Levy has actually pulled off miracles in all areas; again, no sugar-daddy cash incoming from the actual owners...
...the fact he wanted VV in the door is hugely encouraging. The fact that those around him who 'protected' and 'insulated' him from various things have moved on is a good thing. The fact that there is clearly some form of cash injection from the owners is a good thing. Personally? I wish we'd do the small things like have closed the Eze deal faster by hitting the release clause, but I say that with the knowledge that the extra 12 million or whatever that would cost is not my money! I will say I think if we were to sign one more player with Eze this window (whether a Hincapie or a Savinho) that would represent enormous progress in how the board and pitch are coming together; Rome was not built in a day!
I am also glad Levy is being more 'public' as it shows more of who he is and is a move to dispelling the conceopts of who people think he is. This is very important IMO.
I personally believe we are in a hugely transitional era at the club with regards to how it is run. I get the sense that Daniel will be backing away from day to day much sooner than later; I noted with interest that Vinai was the presence in the Romero video. Having said that, I think blind criticism of him and ENIC is lazy, and again, I am always intrigued that the Lewis family's lack of cash injections (until recently) has not been offered in mitigation of what Levy has done more often.
When he said in the Neville interview that he felt he'd only be appreciated when he'd left, I felt a bit sorry for him because you could genuinly see that he cares about the club, has always cared about the club, works tirelessy for the club and feels (rightly) that he has helped us 'grow' enormously under is stewardship...these last two weeks of the window will inevitably be definitive, but providing Eze gets across the line (I believe it will, my guess on Thursday) then we can clearly see that times are changing...
