You ought to tell Levy about the youth then because in his world we should be stacking the first team with talent from our academy so ENIC don't have to dip their greedy little hands in the transfer funds.
Ok Guido, here's the thing mate, if Poch lacked personnel and that was the reason behind our huge downfall under him, then answer me this, who is to blame for that?
Who were the ones that not only failed to back the last manager but also who fired him and hired (in your opinion) a Jose Mourinho who is no longer at his best and who is no longer a world class manager?
I mean, it's pretty obvious here who the common denominator is when it comes to our continued failure, would you agree?
Because let's be real for a second here mate, you continue to criticise Mourinho, a man who has won things his entire career and who was hired to stop a ship from sinking, you keep saying over and over again how he hasn't improved us (which given the short time he has been here and the shit he has been left with I feel is unfair to say) but nonetheless, irrespective of all of that, who hired him?
At what point do people start thinking "hold on a minute? Manager after manager sacked, over a decade without a trophy, a continuous pattern of managers failing because they have been let down in the transfer market, hmmm, there seems to be a common theme here..."
Look, I don't know if what you say about Mourinho is accurate or inaccurate, only time will tell with that one, his career suggests that he is a winner and that wherever he goes, he wins things.
However, what I do know is this, unless the owners change their attitude towards this football club and more importantly, stop taking the piss out of paying supporters with their fucking austerity version of modern football whilst participating in reaping the benefits of the oil money football transfers when they can get a sale on a player then I am afraid fuck all will change, doesn't matter who the manager is.
Instead of focusing on Mourinho or being upset still about the sacking of Poch why not direct your anger at the cunts running this club who literally couldn't give a flying fuck about us achieving anything but a healthy bank balance for themselves.
I have yet to see you criticise them.
I'm talking specifically about the "lack of personnel" available to him that was FIT.
We had NINE players who came back from the Wolrd Cup with no pre-season under their belts!!! Pre-season is the foundation upon which an entire season is built, our BEST players had no preseason. Then either as a direct consequence of or further bad luck we suffered the worst injury fit season in living memory.
Then he identified a "painful rebuild", one that most levelheaded football fan could see that was sorely needed, that in order to play the game that most of us have been thrilled with watching (a high-tempo, high-pressing, energetic aggressive style of football) that was blowing most teams away, we simply needed to refresh with younger players.
What a truly bizarre comment about our youth you make, there is no greater pleasure seeing a lad come through our ranks and making it into the first team, a team made up of entirely from our academy would surely be the greatest thing to witness, but only you could make it into a statement of discontent because you are so obsessed with spending money, that despite teams chucking money at players all around us and finishing below us every season you still have the naivety to look at spending rather than the academy as a solution!
Why are you having a pop at me about Levy?!! I haven't even mentioned his name. I've critiqued what we have, what we are working with. It appears to me that you want to now slag off Levy because you thought Jose is the man, the man that you claimed will take us to the next level because he's a "winner" you pinned your reputation to Jose.
Now that this man, the man that I think is a "has been", looks to be totally lost in the new modern world of football, frozen to the touchline unable to put out a team motivated, unprepared and know what they are supposed to be doing, selecting the wrong personnel (he has a virtually fit squad to select from) for the game, backing the plodders with new contracts, rather than hold your hands up and admit this manager is a spent force you can't bring yourself to critique him. So instead you must find another person to blame. I mean it's not the manager's fault, surely not he's a "winner".
You can't take a swing at Levy if you thought Jose was the greatest manager the club has ever signed, you can only applaud him for appointing him, which is exactly what you and others all did.
Now, I have every right to slag off Levy for sacking Poch and hiring this has been. And I will. I'm fucking fuming that he sacked Poch and brought in this twat. I will no doubt get around to posting my displeasure on this, but this is the Jose thread. And this is where I will talk about his incompetence as a manager unable to manage at the top of the game anymore.
Anyone who backed the hiring of Jose, who was excited by his appointment and then wants to pile into Levy should look at their hypocritical selves first. As it means both you and he were aligned and you both thought it was right, you can't then start pointing the finger.
Take a deep breath and assess this manager carefully. Take off the "winner" specs and assess this manager as if his name is "Mr Smith". Take a look at our performances, take a look at how we were set-up, what we did when we were playing well and what we did when playing poorly and then frame this within the context of who we played. We are STILL shit and we are getting worse.
