Daniel Levy - Chairman

[glorygloryeze]

Seems @metalgear and @glorygloryeze have such high expectations, they will never be satisfied.
Even if we had Liverpool's squad they would be fuming that Nunez can't hit a barn door and Jota is injured and Salah is ageing fast.
Woe is me.

Nah, just expectations of improvement and ways of working from a football perspective.

Such things that befit a club which has increased its revenue streams AND has more loftier football ambitions than what they used to have before when the stadium and the associated revenue streams were smaller

 

[thfcsteff]

I don't know, but what I have seen of him for both Plymouth and Stoke, he has been pretty damn fine.

In fact IIRC, Plymouth fans were saying he was the reason they stayed up.

And I have not seen him put a foot wrong.

I just don't get it. Any decent manager maximises the use of the squad he has at hand. I don't get Ange's snub of players in key positions. Like Djed, Reg, Philips, Veliz...

I want to know what Levy is injecting our manager's with lol!

I think Veliz has been unlucky for sure. I like Phillips but I also really liked Dorrington pre-injury. The Spence thing is just weird. Reggie must be about off-field as much as anything?

 

[SkipRat]

I think Veliz has been unlucky for sure. I like Phillips but I also really liked Dorrington pre-injury. The Spence thing is just weird. Reggie must be about off-field as much as anything?

No idea.

But he can certainly give udogie a rest, maybe even a bit of competition... even if it's only for the rest of the year until we get an up upgrade to Udogie...

Get more money for a player who has been playing, rather than left to rot.

 

[Muttley]

I think Veliz has been unlucky for sure. I like Phillips but I also really liked Dorrington pre-injury. The Spence thing is just weird. Reggie must be about off-field as much as anything?

I think it's easy to focus on the players and not our club. Perhaps it's the case that the club told Reggie to head out on loan for a year to get his mojo back after a year of hellish injuries. He did that and performed well for both Utd and Brentford and came back only to be treated like crap when he returned.

It reminds me of a passage in Lloris's book where Levy tries to get Hugo to say a fond farewell to the Spurs fans in our last home game. Hugo politely reminded him he a year left on his contract. Then on deadline day Llloris is sitting in a restaurant with his family whilst we're all seeing on SSN that he is headed to Saudi Sportswashing Machine to sit on their bench. As we know, Hugo is then ostracised, which massively impacted his mental health based on what he has opened up about recently. It's why I don't fully buy all that crap Ange comes out with being a philosopher and a life coach and talking about life lessons and his old man. This happened on his watch, in his playing squad.

This Reggie thing sounds like another example of where our beloved club has treated a model pro disrespectfully. If Reggie is pushing back, we probably deserve it. I personally think we have shot ourselves in the foot. We have a perfectly adequate backup LB who offers the maturity of a player in his late twenties around a bunch of kids. We could be utilising him whilst we find him a new home amicably and find a better player. We do actually need better than Davies and Reggie.

It's a ruthless industry, but our club always seems to have an implied cultural problem with personnel issues under Levy's stewardship. None of this probably makes us any different from other clubs though. lol - they're all horrible.