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Levy's a shopkeeper, with a shopkeeper's mentality. Balancing the books, even in the very short term, is his primary concern. He is the very antithesis of risk.

In his custody, the club will never be in financial risk...but the likelihood of sporting success is very small and getting smaller by the year. Levy's hope is that the new FFP regime works better than previous attempts....

If fans are happy with that, good for them. Personally, I'm no longer believing the idea of jam tomorrow and have zero faith in football bodies to apply the rules in an effective fashion.

I really don't care who owns the club, but someone with more sporting ambition and drive and a plan that could work, needs to replace Levy at the helm.

You contend that in fact tis Levy who has been dampening
the natural risk-taking business instincts of Uncle Joe ??
 
Heard various figures for a potential takeover, but are all less than was paid for Chelski. I am still baffled how Chelski is worth more than us when they don't even have control over selling their stadium, which cannot generate as much income as ours anyway. Remember you're paying for future potential rather than what has happened in the past. I cannot conceive of how we are worth less than them.

Perhaps their on-pitch successes (PL, CL etc) means
they are rated as a better proposition regardless of
the hindrance their stadium situation.
 
I wonder what ENIC plan to do if they do sell the club?
I doubt that they'd just be done with football, especially in Levy's case.
Is there another club that they'd try to turn into a project?
Birmingham or one of the Sheffield clubs, perhaps?
 
I wonder what ENIC plan to do if they do sell the club?
I doubt that they'd just be done with football, especially in Levy's case.
Is there another club that they'd try to turn into a project?
Birmingham or one of the Sheffield clubs, perhaps?

I could see them trying to build a mega stadium away from
dense population clusters, weather-proof (closable roofing etc)
capable of hosting just about any sporting/entertainment event
you can think of.
 
I find it more than a little scummy that certain journos (whose names may or may not rhyme with Dam Bokpel) ran with the Najafi bid story implying the club was for sale, and within a few hours are now running with the story the club was never for sale

Looking to double your engagement, perchance...?
 
I find it more than a little scummy that certain journos (whose names may or may not rhyme with Dam Bokpel) ran with the Najafi bid story implying the club was for sale, and within a few hours are now running with the story the club was never for sale

Looking to double your engagement, perchance...?
ran with the story someone had put a bid in because, well, someone had put a bid in.

How in your mind does that equate to implying the club is/was for sale?
 
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bang on the money
Does he want forward thinking or does he want instant impact? He doesn't seem to know.
He also appears to be pulling the FFP thing out of his arse.
Very few people expect it to have any impact on our rivals.

There's no kicking the can down the road at Arsenal?
That's exactly what they've done. It's taken several years with Arteta to get here.
They finished 8th twice on the bounce. There's no way this bloke would be happy with that.

Utd spent money and changed managers repeatedly to get the Ten Hag, too.
FSG have been awful owners for Liverpool and have been exceptionally lucky.
Klopp spent the Coutinho money well, but now their squad's falling apart.
He wouldn't be happy with either the Glazers or them, nor should he be.

As for Youtube channel manipulation, he blocks all criticism, despite not having many views.
People can disagree with him without being moles or indeed being wrong.

He's right about the academy, though. I've said the same thing myself repeatedly.
We need a club philosophy and to stick with it, much like Ajax and Dortmund do.
Individual managers matter less when this is implemented, in my opinion.
That's one of the big reasons that we need a proper DoF.
 
Does he want forward thinking or does he want instant impact? He doesn't seem to know. ...

As I said, I was not going to post a "TLDR" take on it,
but my "executive summary" would be :

Entitled brat having a tantrum because :

1. them lot are genuinely in a PL title fight for the first time
in ages (what since the 2000s ?? )

2. Man Utd current PL placing is better than their
GD suggests should be the case
 
Maybe buy back the Mr Byrite name and take it worldwide?

Holy **** Batman! I haven't heard that name in decades. Really. It's one of those names I would never have uttered for the rest of my life if you hadn't reminded me. Remember though, John Collier is the window to watch, get horrendous sheets from Brentford Nylons not arf, put a tiger in your tank, clean a big big carpet for less than half a crown and (although virtually modern by these standards), if you like the taste of malt you'll love the malt in a Colt 45.
 
Holy **** Batman! I haven't heard that name in decades. Really. It's one of those names I would never have uttered for the rest of my life if you hadn't reminded me. Remember though, John Collier is the window to watch, get horrendous sheets from Brentford Nylons not arf, put a tiger in your tank, clean a big big carpet for less than half a crown and (although virtually modern by these standards), if you like the taste of malt you'll love the malt in a Colt 45.

Mr Byrite was the Levy family business where Daniel cut his business teeth.

I may have bought an acrylic red and black striped jumper there in '77...after a couple of minutes wear it had formed enough static electricity to stun a horse.

P.s. Colt 45 was undrinkable...
 
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Mr Byrite was the Levy family business where Daniel cut his business teeth.

I may have bought an acrylic red and black striped jumper there in '77...after a couple of minutes wear it had formed enough static electricity to stun a horse.

P.s. Colt 45 was undrinkable...

I didn't know the Byrite / Levy connection, interesting.

I think I got my 1970s fashion items from Granditter (I think it was spelt like that) of which I think there was only one, in Ilford. The green/brown/black striped tank top and white high wasted trousers were notable purchases.
 
2. Man Utd current PL placing is better than their
GD suggests should be the case

Man Utd current PL placing is better than their team suggests should be the case. But if you only get 1 in 10 yellow cards you deserve, that sort of thing might happen (this seasons version of "New United... Now comes with added penalties!").
 
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