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DubSpur said:
If the standard is expecting the manager to improve the team during their tenure as much as he's improved the overall club during his tenure then Ange fell well short of that.
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Oh yes. I thought our target all these years was winning a trophy. Guess I was wrong.
 
BrainOfLevy said:
Interesting video.

On Vinai - am I to assume as he is more involved in day to day operational and football matters, that Levy will be a bit more removed from this? So could see a bit of a change in strategy? Eg we still won’t have the most money to spend in the League, but maybe there’s an approach of taking a calculated risk more at the right time? Will that signal any change there?

On DL - I really do believe he is a good person that wants the best for the club. I genuinely believe so much of the - particularly personal - criticism against him is wide of the mark. I believe him when he says he wants success. He’s said exactly what I’ve been thinking - I want us to realistically have a chance of winning the Premier League. My question is, does he truly understand what it takes to get there? Will the club really do what it takes? Or are we hoping to get lucky?

I think my hope is that Vinai is a weighty enough hire that can actually challenge Levy in the right ways, and mark a meaningful change in our approach to win the league. I understood that his background at Arsenal was more on the commercial side, and Arsenal were hardly bastions of risk taking. So there’s my potential concern. That said, every club is different, every club has its own context and challenges and specific problems to solve. Maybe they are a great combination and Vinai is the right sort of challenge and change to the way we’ve done things.

They are both clearly smart, both want the best, and I hope we really do get to a point of realistically challenging for the league. Fingers crossed.
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Only watched the video yesterday for the first time. I didn't feel like Levy was really stepping back to be chairman of the board and letting his new CEO run the operation. I was hoping that we were moving from the prior model of Levy being chairman and CEO, and he had already shared with us that he had split football operations and commercial into the 2 big buckets. So this model is what I was thinking we would evolve to:

Chairman of the board - chairs the board
CEO - runs the club accountable to the board
Chief Football Officer - runs football ops
Chief Commercial Officer - runs commercial

Now I'm a bit confused as I feel that Levy will still be involved in CEO duties and even down to the football ops activities like transfers. I guess it's all about who has the bandwidth especially now Cullen has left. If Munn has also left then Vinai now picks up all 3 roles with existing staff with Levy involved as and when. Perhaps Fabio becomes the chief football officer.

I guess it's Ok as long as they all divide and conquer and work together as a unit.
 
Lemonade Money said:
22 PL defeats + EL winners + CL is far better than 0 PL defeats + 0 trophies + whatever qualification.
But the latter is what everyone would be happy with from Frank.
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If you listen to the Levy interview it's quite clear that 22 PL defeats was the issue, and quite rightly so.

If we had no defeats last season as you suggest, then we would have likely won the PL.

Frank has been brought in to achieve both.

I can't think of a single other club that has won a Trophy, done the Double or Treble and lost twenty two games. They all had a manager who could cope with the fixture list, and compete in some circumstances on three or four fronts.

Ange couldn't and admitted that in January.
 
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