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Obvious winner, but there's some nice goals from the women and academy, to be fair.
 
We're supposedly chasing Dougie Freedman to replace Paratici.

Interesting move seeing as his skillset is basically identical to whatever yarn Lange spun in his interview.
 
So Vinai has emerged from behind the sofa to say: telling Matt Law (of course) don't blame me, it's all Levy's fault

Brilliant timing, considering Frank staying for about six weeks too long and the dearth of activity in January transfer window are fresh in people's minds and neither can be pinned on Levy...
 
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So Vinai has emerged from behind the sofa to say: telling Matt Law (of course) don't blame me, it's all Levy's fault

Brilliant timing, considering Frank staying for about six weeks too long and the dearth of activity in January transfer window are fresh in people's minds and neither can be pinned on Levy...

The club is a cesspit of people refusing to take responsibility and accountability, all the way from the top down to the pitch.
 
The club is a cesspit of people refusing to take responsibility and accountability, all the way from the top down to the pitch.
This is the thing: Levy put his head above the parapet regularly

About the only person with any authority we hear from regularly is Lange, and it's obvious that's because mainly Kendall & Shiv are letting him be the lightning rod as they shoved the previous one out the door last summer
 
...so we're getting a new sleeve sponsor, right?


...sod it, locked behind login

So long story short: Kraken's CEO told white members of staff they shouldn't be afraid to use the n-word in the workspace

They can get the **** off our sleeves, then
 
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I went to Villa park to watch Spurs away once. Had to sit in the home end and Spurs lost 1-0.

Wouldn’t recommend it :emoticon-0101-sadsm
Got that beat: had to go to Pride Park during a historically awful winter

Didn't even know the result until I watched it on MOTD, since I was preoccupied with slowly dying of hypothermia all match
I’lol join you both with a trip to the Brittania.

Honestly thought I was in an episode of the Walking Dead. Grim area, even grimmer people.

Burnley away was also amusing, we had to park up next to a piss-stained mattress in a car park surrounded by houses in which 75% were boarded up. Burgers were cheap though… probably wasn’t beef, mind.
 
So three days after the board were criticised for their radio silence ahead of the final game of the season, Kendall & Shiv finally release a statement...that says don't blame us, it was all Levy's fault

Twats

 
So three days after the board were criticised for their radio silence ahead of the final game of the season, Kendall & Shiv finally release a statement...that says don't blame us, it was all Levy's fault

Twats

"We are not selling the Club. We are all in."

That wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that they'd be selling at a massive loss currently? - even if they would be able to find a serious buyer in the current international financial crisis!.... <doh>
 
I thought Vinai's letter was pretty decent. Fans will of course read into it with pre existing bias, but it confirms everything many of us have been saying for ages: Levy and his team took their eye off the football side of thinks five years ago or so to focus heavily on the commercial side of the business. Things were allowed to stagnate and then decay until we reached the present mess.

There is some generosity in that I and others have placed the decline a starting seven years ago, but I think the period of Poch being sacked to Jose being sacked can be written off due to Covid. Even I wasn't too harsh on Levy at that time. After all, the bloke spent two decades working on a new stadium and within half a year of opening it was closed to the public.

But post Jose, and I include in this the absolute pantomime of a manager search after he left, is definitely the marker for when eyes were taken off the ball.
 
Given ENIC paid 10s of millions for the club,
feel free to educate us as to what price would
be "selling at a massive loss" .
Thanks for the sarky comment - not unexpected from source! I suppose I should be grateful that you didn't throw in some random algebraic equation or two...

FWIW I was making a relative 'worth' analogy, in that the market of potential suitors (Gulf / US ) has been greatly reduced due to the global financial insecurity. A year, or even 6 months ago, there would have been several potential buyers and with it a higher sales price.

Oh well.... We aren't all Economic geniuses like your good self I suppose, so I bow to your greater knowledge. :emoticon-0148-yes: <laugh>
 
I thought Vinai's letter was pretty decent. Fans will of course read into it with pre existing bias, but it confirms everything many of us have been saying for ages: Levy and his team took their eye off the football side of thinks five years ago or so to focus heavily on the commercial side of the business. Things were allowed to stagnate and then decay until we reached the present mess.

There is some generosity in that I and others have placed the decline a starting seven years ago, but I think the period of Poch being sacked to Jose being sacked can be written off due to Covid. Even I wasn't too harsh on Levy at that time. After all, the bloke spent two decades working on a new stadium and within half a year of opening it was closed to the public.

But post Jose, and I include in this the absolute pantomime of a manager search after he left, is definitely the marker for when eyes were taken off the ball.
As is usual I agree with Levy's strategy though. Yes of course we failed to produce a team that can compete at the highest level but that is the expected outcome when five clubs can outspend you. You could theoretically overcome that by having better recruitment, better coaching or fewer injuries but I don't think any of those are really something under the control of management. Increasing commercial income is the only plausible way of catching the others.
And I don't think the points outcomes over the last two seasons are below the 5% confidence levels particularly given the injury outcome so I don't think there is actually any real evidence that we've underperformed.
Great that the owhers think there is though as that might lead them to invest more, although I still don't understand how they can do that in a way that allows us to spend more....unless they are planning to pay £50m a year to sponsor the stadium.