I love all the statistical bullshit being bounced around to defend Levy. It means nothing...
Statistics don't show excellence like having to give a player away to another team, because the bald headed wank gibbon doesn't know how many players we loaned out.
Or like selling Berbatov and Keane and replacing them with Bent and the sack of shit that we got from Manu, so crap that I can't even be bothered to remember his name. Screwing over Ramos after he won a cup the previous year.
Or Santini walking out the club, as he called out levy on his lying bullshit.
In the year Poch to got the CL final, Levy spent nothing, zero, the square root of fuck all supporting the manager that year.
People need to remember that statistics are only half the story.
Then the arguments come out but he is a shrewd businessman, really?
How many millions have been wasted on dead wood in wages, because he wanted the extra couple of million for a player we no longer needed?
How many millions, because of his ego, have we lost as players have walked away on a free or the fraction of the cost.
how many players did we fail to sign that would have massively improved the squad, over a million or two? resulting in millions lost by not being in Europe or the CL.
It was never about not putting the money in, it's always been the millions he spunked up the walls on bargains that no one ever wanted, resulting blowing hundreds of millions on dead wood.
Is it bad to get players on the cheap? Of course not, as long as they have been targeted as a potential asset to the squad like Solomon. But the vast majority of the time, it's just because they are cheap and that's the guiding reason for Levy. Resulting in horrendous numbers of dead wood over the years.
And we have all seen, the results of his little ego trip for the last 4 years. He always wanted Mourinho, a manager known for playing a negative style, not bringing youngsters through or developing players, then not backing him...
And when it all goes wrong, they become Levy's scape goat.
IMHO, Levy can f*ck off.