Before we signed Lloris, I actually said many times I'd be happy for Brad to have been given another 1 year deal to carry on after this season. His first year he was great, brought stability and calmness back into the defence and you never had a heart-in-mouth moment when he went to claim a ball. That said, we've signed who I'd consider to be one of the top 10 keepers in the world, whether we knew other teams were sniffing around and therefore wanted to rap it up before Jan is pretty irrelevent in my opinion, fact is we have him and I personally feel he should've been number 1 by the QPR game. Keeping what I'm sure many of us would consider the better keeper on the bench is ludicrous. As much as Brad is a fantastic keeper, when a better player signs a natural instinct would be to select the better player. We've dropped current players for new players before; Ade signed on loan last season so Defoe was demoted, Friedel came in over Gomes and so on so I don't see why we haven't put Lloris in yet. It's all well and good for some to say Hugo is seen as "the future" by AVB/ Spurs and he'll get a chance soon enough but Lloris isn't an 18/19 year old kid with potential that'd be delighted just to be involved with the squad to then develop as a potential first choice, he's an established top class keeper who was a major coup for us. I think the longer we leave him out, the worst it'll do for his confidence which is why currently we might not be seeing the best of him when he does play.
Why's it unfair? Pay me £40k a week and I'm damn sure I'd have people hired to ensure situations like that don't happen.
The logic of your argument is AVB hasn't a clue what he is doing, despite being the man in charge it therefore follows that Levy hasn't a clue because he employed him at some considerable expense. Whereas I have to believe that you and GH10 know precisely what should be done despite not being paid a cent by Spurs for your expert knowledge and viewing everything via disputed media commentary and a few games of football. No I am not convinced.
sometimes it doesn't matter who you hire though SOS, the business model must have clearly had flaws to accrue that much debt, and the recession was bound to have made a huge difference.
What situation? Did Friedel run this business himself? Did he just finance something? If you could pay someone 40k a week and avoid all financial problems how come the whole bloody world is in such a mess. A mess brought about by people in finance who are paid large sums to avoid such failure. Yet they all failed.
And your expert knowledge to yet again judge other people's arguments and opinions clearly makes you God doesn't it? I've mentioned before I rarely pay attention to media commentary. I judge the person from their recent history and how they currently fair. Which thus far, AVB has certainly not lived up to any of the hype, nor has he impressed me. You can slate the logic of my argument as much as you like, I've yet to be convinced by anything you say, you live on a form blind hope that AVB will take this team to another level, I don't. AVB has failed to impress me with his style of football, selections, treatment of players and substitutions in games. From the stats THFC6061 posted in his new thread, sacking Harry was clearly a ridiculous decision so yes, despite being a huge Levy fan myself, find his decision to employ AVB so far as a poor decision.
The situation where he's declared bankrupt perhaps? If I were paid £40k a week, I'd ensure I have the right people around to help make sure decisions I make will ensure I don't end up filing for bankruptcy or at least try to cut at a loss where bankruptcy COULD have been avoided. I credit the fact Friedel tried doing good for a community, it's a wonderful thing for him to do but clearly his financial wealth wasn't strong enough and the people he hired culminated in a process that eventually let him down.
i didn't want AVB,but i don't see how you can say Levy made a poor decision on so little amount of games,that and the fact that injury's haven't helped.i'm leaving it longer,to make a decision
I don't believe in God SoS so where does that leave me. My judging your argument is a lot easier than second guessing the Lloris situation or the Friedel one. The difference is I am dealing with what is front of me for all to see. I don't need expert knowledge to read what you have written in fact it's fairly simple for a god like me to deal with such an argument. Now to my 'blind hope' I am laughing again SoS. I am trying to remember when I expressed blind hope or faith in AVB, perhaps you would remind me. I think all I have said with regard to AVB is that it's too early to pass judgement even for a god. The difference between you and me SoS is that I don't make statements that I find hard to support but as this is a forum for debate I am glad you provide the material.
That's my point though Roo, the people he hired clearly let him down, I'm saying I'd have done my damn best to ensure that the people I hired knew what they were doing and would either have prevented me from making the decision to run the business in the first place or at least tried warning me to cut the losses before accumulating such problems as he has.
SoS for ruler of the world. The man with all the answers. Bollocks SoS Bollocks. You and your boring job eh!
We sign a better player but doesn't get played. There's no in depth theory to it. If he were injured/ unfit like Ade was at the start of the season I'd understand... But he wasn't. Of course I don't know if my theories are correct or not and if you want to class it as second guessing so be it, I base it on what I believe, what I discover and from what others have shared, how else can I base my opinions on the situation? In regards to Friedel, I merely stated that while he was doing a credible thing, to me, he clearly didn't assess the situation thoroughly, nor hire the best people to ensure that he wouldn't end up in such a mess despite earning in a week what many would need 2 or 3 years to make. I feel extremely sorry for him as he wasn't being a pr*ck like the likes Etherington, Chopra and co who gambled their money away. It's just I think he may have been naive in the decisions he took to open such a large organisation and the people he hired to do so. That's not unfair as you mentioned earlier, just an observation. I say you have blind hope as your quick to jump on my case as soon as I criticise AVB or if I ever revert back to how things were under Redknapp. Gives me the impression your part of an AVB brigade in which the slightest of negativity should be shot down. Seeing as you like making your theories on my points and how I supposedly think things through, I made one about yours. I don't find my statements hard to support at all, I make them from opinion and analysis hence the reason a lot of the time I try to write posts with a lot of thought and appreciate both pros and cons. I don't slate or try to belittle peoples opinions just because I disagree.
I don't follow SOS. he opened the academy in 2007, just as the credit crunch hit, which then soon after turned into recession. Financial planning experts can't predict the future, then can only go on the history of the economy. With a crash like this, those people could well have been completely helpless. If funding is pulled, or there just isn't the lending/money available any longer, then these people can't perform miracles if their hands are tied by the powers above, which are the banks. The recession has seen big companies go under who had the correct personnel in place, ensuring that business was run well for years and years until recently. unfortunately, outside factors can leave a businesses helpless. yes the debts were high, but no one has known how long this will go on for, so for a lot of businesses they are trying to ride it out. Bearing in mind that Brad's was not for profit and was for the benefit of young footballers, i'm sure there was a lot of pride at stake in trying to make it work. if you're going bankrupt, does it matter whether it's 2 mill or 5 mill? you're still going bankrupt.
This was the point I was trying to get at though. If he was trying to ride it out, despite the fact it was there as a not for profit organisation, I don't see the logic in it. It's very admirable of him for doing his best to support a community, people like him don't deserve to have the trouble he's had but if the money wasn't there, he should've pulled out long ago and tried to have prevented bankruptcy. But meh... I'll leave the more in depth financial analysis side to others who probably understand it a lot more than me. Just from my perspetive, while what he was doing was a fantastic and generous idea, he didn't have the financial strength to keep such a thing going.
I leave that side of my life for Arsenal fans and the druggies in my local area. Where's Harry Hill when you need him though?
Yep, for me the key sgnings were a keeper and two strikers. Levy left it late, too late we now see, (again) to deliver, but we finally got them. Unfortunately the keeper has only played one lge ame, and the main striker Ade only started one lge game, while the back up (Dempsey) has been disappointing.
