comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Bãleș left boot - Palhinha my goat (U22081)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well I guess Lewis handed it over to his kids, yeah
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So technically right then?

No Big Joe & No levy
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Well Levy still owns the same bit. Lewis transferred it to his kids years ago. So I think we're both right

comment by Bãleș left boot - Palhinha my goat (U22081)
posted 28 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Bãleș left boot - Palhinha my goat (U22081)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well I guess Lewis handed it over to his kids, yeah
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So technically right then?

No Big Joe & No levy
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Well Levy still owns the same bit. Lewis transferred it to his kids years ago. So I think we're both right
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Neither have any say on how the club is run though.

Apparently his that Vivian bird didn’t get on with levy,

comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by plus vincit saepius ra ra ra (U23088)
posted 17 seconds ago
Shouldn't Thomas have made a statement by now?
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Why?
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People must have tried to interview him?

comment by plus vincit saepius ra ra ra (U23088)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by plus vincit saepius ra ra ra (U23088)
posted 17 seconds ago
Shouldn't Thomas have made a statement by now?
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Why?
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People must have tried to interview him?
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Why?

comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Bãleș left boot - Palhinha my goat (U22081)
posted 28 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Bãleș left boot - Palhinha my goat (U22081)
posted 8 minutes ago
Well I guess Lewis handed it over to his kids, yeah
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So technically right then?

No Big Joe & No levy
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Well Levy still owns the same bit. Lewis transferred it to his kids years ago. So I think we're both right
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Neither have any say on how the club is run though.

Apparently his that Vivian bird didn’t get on with levy,

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Well leadership yeah but the ownership hasn't changed since 2022

If its worth anything, I am more in the same camp as J in terms of how I feel about the takeover.

I accept a lot of Levy criticisms and think he needed a more diminished role. I have far more faith in him (Levy) than I do ENIC.

I’m ready for a fresh start.

I don’t think levy could have a diminished part. He’s just to big of a person around the club.

Kinda excited to see if this new order of ENIC will out there money where there mouth is

Well J seems upset for the man as if he's hard done by. I haven't seen anything constructive there in terms of what his actual concerns are with ENIC's ability to move the club forward

comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by plus vincit saepius ra ra ra (U23088)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by plus vincit saepius ra ra ra (U23088)
posted 17 seconds ago
Shouldn't Thomas have made a statement by now?
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Why?
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People must have tried to interview him?
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Why?
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Obviously journalists have tried to interview him.
I'm not being personal here, but it would be moronic to think that the papers and the media have not contacted him to ask him to say what he thinks about the change in the club''s senior management. Of course they have.

comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 1 minute ago
I’m ready for a fresh start.

I don’t think levy could have a diminished part. He’s just to big of a person around the club.

Kinda excited to see if this new order of ENIC will out there money where there mouth is
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Yeah I don’t think he would have accepted a diminished part either. However if he was able to focus only on commercial and infrastructure aspects it would be ideal

Though FWIW I've long advocated for Levy Out of Football operations, there's no criticizing his business acumen. But like Hengy says, that was probably impossible.

I don't see any reason to be negative about what a new leadership structure can achieve on the pitch. Literally all they've got to beat 2 trophies in 24 years

And if anyone cares, I was behind Levy until the Mourinho failure pretty much. I'd get all the scepticism if there was more (any really) that Levy was turning it around

more evidence*

comment by Bãleș left boot - Palhinha my goat (U22081)
posted 3 minutes ago
Though FWIW I've long advocated for Levy Out of Football operations, there's no criticizing his business acumen. But like Hengy says, that was probably impossible.

I don't see any reason to be negative about what a new leadership structure can achieve on the pitch. Literally all they've got to beat 2 trophies in 24 years
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I personally find the last statement reductive.

I really rate Brighton’s leadership structure, for example, but they haven’t won anything. So much nuance.

comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Bãleș left boot - Palhinha my goat (U22081)
posted 3 minutes ago
Though FWIW I've long advocated for Levy Out of Football operations, there's no criticizing his business acumen. But like Hengy says, that was probably impossible.

I don't see any reason to be negative about what a new leadership structure can achieve on the pitch. Literally all they've got to beat 2 trophies in 24 years
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I personally find the last statement reductive.

I really rate Brighton’s leadership structure, for example, but they haven’t won anything. So much nuance.
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I find your analogy to Brighton dishonest. Do we really need a discussion about how the clubs are different?

Arsenal are a much fairer comparison

Also I've said this before and it's what really got to me about Levy, is that it's common in business for leadership to change as it grows. There's very different skillsets required to take something that's barely chugging along and into a period of massive growth, to running a multi-billion pound football club. Clearly. Or we'd have won everything by now. The fact Levy never saw this and had the sense to properly hand over control to people who knew what they were doing was infuriating.

I mean, we had this internal review going on, we had chaos with managers and one of our best ever, homegrown players leaving cos the club was going nowhere, and Levy apparently didn't see this coming?

comment by plus vincit saepius ra ra ra (U23088)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by plus vincit saepius ra ra ra (U23088)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by plus vincit saepius ra ra ra (U23088)
posted 17 seconds ago
Shouldn't Thomas have made a statement by now?
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Why?
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People must have tried to interview him?
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Why?
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Obviously journalists have tried to interview him.
I'm not being personal here, but it would be moronic to think that the papers and the media have not contacted him to ask him to say what he thinks about the change in the club''s senior management. Of course they have.
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Still doesn’t answer my first why?

Why would Frank make a statement about a guy he worked with for 2 months?

He’ll answer any questions at the next press conference

I'm astonished how calm you people are.
There has been a coup. An actual coup in a football club. The boss of 25 years was given half a day's notice by his son, a goo ner, and people who claim to be doing it for "more wins more often" and who we are told will own the club for generations.
None of this is normal. None of it.

You should do a article about it J

Gray played a full game at CB for Eng U21

comment by Bãleș left boot - Palhinha my goat (U22081)
posted 1 hour, 49 minutes ago
Arsenal are a much fairer comparison
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Arsenal are not a fairer comparison.

comment by plus vincit saepius ra ra ra (U23088)
posted 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
I'm astonished how calm you people are.
There has been a coup. An actual coup in a football club. The boss of 25 years was given half a day's notice by his son, a goo ner, and people who claim to be doing it for "more wins more often" and who we are told will own the club for generations.
None of this is normal. None of it.
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I would like to point out though. That Levy wrote the book on quick and harsh dismissals. See Jose, Nuno or sacking BMJ while we were playing a facking football match.

They is

I find J's take genuinely hilarious. Are we to believe you actually care?