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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    Yeah I remember Sissoko being played on the right initially and being bad, before actually becoming a really solid central midfield option. That is the weird thing though - 30m was a lot at the time and Levy was willing to do that. It doesn’t really make much sense. Again I am realising a lot...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    I think the destabilisation comes in the transition. It’s not that we were bad because Levy left, but we were bad because for example Levy’s final big decision, to appoint Frank, then collided with Vinai’s desire to show patience and for the club’s desire to try and minimise more transition...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    I don’t know for sure, but it all seems quite strange to me to agree to a new role, announce it publicly, all after having stayed connected with the club through the ban, and then pack up and leave a few months later. In piecing together the stories that came out, it sounds like Paratici...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    I’m not really following mate. The PL is a challenge for sure, but we were told for years that we couldn’t spend more on wages until we had the infrastructure. Then we had it, and did nothing with it. Clubs have their own challenges and merely having the wages is no guarantee, that I agree. You...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    I also think…we are aiming for both. But to aim for both we need to have a season that isn’t disrupted by an unprecedented injury crisis.
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    The new reality was our bigger stadium allowing us to spend more on wages and still be whatever the club decided sustainable meant for them. It’s the reality that allows us to be in for the Simons, Eze, Semenyo, Gallagher type players. We won’t always get them, but we can now realistically...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    I think this is also part of the issue though with Levy. We’d occasionally get a manager in who would achieve something through force of their own personality and ability, but it was never consistent with a long term club strategy. It was continually hoping for some short term shot in the arm to...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    Just read this - was a very enjoyable read. Also enjoyed the quote: As one experienced Premier League sporting director put it, a club like Tottenham “can make a brickload of brick decisions and still not be this brick”. What is interesting is Paratici wanting Frank out in November. Not being...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    Yeah, I think the real story of this season is about corporate structure, and the lesson that came from trying to replace everything that Levy did, and represented in terms of being the key decision maker, and trying to do it all too quickly. From that, stems almost everything else. The...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    Considering that we are interviewing for another DoF to go alongside, I don’t think they expected Paratici to be unhappy. And I don’t thinking they expected Lange to be the long term sole DoF. But definitely issues have stemmed from the fact that Lange was put in a position he shouldn’t have...
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    Totally. So then I go back to being happier at least with the idea that we’ve seemingly been interviewing others over the last few months to get someone else in. They don’t think that Lange should be the sole DoF.
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    Yeah, I agree with this actually. If other teams had amazing windows then I’d find it more easy to criticise. But January is genuinely tough. We shouldn’t have sold Brennan though. With our injury issues not being fixed (even in terms of the people that we have hired to oversee the fixing of...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    With the idea that both were on the same level in the org chart though right? I remember them doing the joint video together announcing it. I think it’s one thing to promote him knowing Paratici is there to cover for his weaknesses. It’s another if they promoted him with the intention that he...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    With signings like Gallagher and trying for Semenyo I do think they are going to operate differently in the transfer market, and actually did last summer. They made a pigs ear of MGW and Eze (probably not helped by Levy operating by his principles in amongst the Lewis kids trying to do something...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    The fact that all the noise coming out suggests that we have been interviewing for a proper DoF and that Lange at best is going to he joint with this new hire or demoted, is a positive for me. I think Lange being in such a senior position was a consequence of unexpectedly losing Paratici, which...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    I hear you. For me, the first point there is connected to the second, and the overall situation. I do think it is good that Vinai trusted his most senior football person. But the problem stems from that most senior football person being Lange. So it’s an issue of all of them being put in this...
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    True, we don’t. I just cannot believe that the players though would have said anything to the effect of ‘we’re about to turn the corner, give Mr Frank time.’
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    Yeah, I do see how a lot of this season boils down to putting Vinai and Lange in positions they shouldn’t really be in, and how replacing Levy the way they did puts them in that position because it created a vacuum. Vinai doesn’t know the club, and didn’t have enough football people around...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    It’s actually incredible. I was thinking today how negative it was around the club in the late 90s and early 2000s. It was the sense of drift, of proper mid table mediocrity. And yet…never was there a season as bad as this. To not be safe on the final day. And to do it with a way better squad...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Ahahahahahaha. She is the biggest rage baiter going. In her most recent article before the game this weekend she still managed to throw in a ‘if only the fans would have let Thomas Frank build the defensive solidity they so sorely needed, then he would have opened up the attack by now.’ Utter...
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