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Finney Is Back said:
I don't tend to judge the capability of people by how they look. I suggest you try to do the same as you'll be ruling out lots of people for some silly inherent bias.

I also suggest that you give CEO's a bit more time than 6 months before you judge how they can turn around a failing business (or sports club in this example).
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Chinless is a description of character, not physical appearance. Id imagine it has boxing origins
 
Gutter Boy said:
He's the longest serving player who hasnt had a contract renewal. The same reason Richy is on significantly less than Solanke
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Those wage figures look like Capology figures and not worth a second look . According to Capology, Richy has been on that wage since 2018/19 season.
 
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Finney Is Back said:
Did you watch the amazon documentary? If so did you really take that away from it?
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Do you mean the amazon documentary from 2019/2020? That Poch didn't want and that Mourinho turned into his show? That is like asking if I think the side which featured in Hunter Davis' epicd The Glory Game reflect current swuad attitudes towards the game and life. In short, I took nothing away from that which pertains to this...

...however, now you mention it ( ;) ), think about how much Levy made sure he was in the frames/edits/canteen on a regular basis. Trust me (albeit I suspect you might well know) his ousting sent a seismic shock through the club and it absolutely would've affected operations around the players which in turn would've affected them.
 
I know we hear it all the time, but does anyone else feel like this sounds a little different?

The whole “we know actions speak louder than words” line just feels different somehow. Then you’ve got all these statements coming out, Gold mentioning that Lang is on very thin ice, the investigation into the pitch bounce, and all the injuries being looked at.

It genuinely feels like they’re in last chance saloon mode and know they have to go big this summer if they want to earn back some of the respect they’ve lost.

Maybe I’m just reading too much into the usual false promises, but I can’t help feeling this time might actually be different. Famous last words, I know.
 
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SissokoWasGood (BoL) said:
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 of my assumptions about people in power having more information to make good decisions in theory doesn’t always hold true. I assumed that Levy thought Sissoko was perhaps a good long term investment, with maybe versatility and a fitness record that meant we could get a lot out of him. But knowing what we now know, in terms of how Levy made decisions because he was worried about public backlash and wanting to be seen to be doing something, there is every chance he panicked, thought Poch needed someone, anyone, and pushed the deal through. Which is insane to me. But could very well be what happened.

I heard the Libero podcast recommend Ferran Soriano’s book ‘the ball doesn’t go in by chance’ and spent some time reading it last night. It is a great book on the challenges and strategies for running a successful football club. And you can see what Soriano took from Barca to Emirates Marketing Project. The point isn’t that every club should do exactly what they did, but there are some core principles that successful clubs follow. And I have to say it was striking how when reading that book and comparing it to Levy’s Spurs…how few of those things we actually did. It is no wonder we stagnated. After 2019 we basically did none of the good things, and all of the mistakes the book calls out.
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It was arse-covering, and not very well done. I remember it was an 'appeasement' for the failure of paying Mane the wages he wanted (same issue with Winaldjum, Mitchell then got on his bike, etc). It was sort of 'here, we got this for you' rather than 'is this what you wanted'?Another of Poch's great complaints was timing. He repeatedly said he wanted players for pre-season/much of as possible, and that rarely happened. Indeed, if it happened with one player, it seems as though the feeling was 'we've done it' rather than 'let's keep this brick rolling and get more done quickly'. Right up til the end his transfer dealings were most un-ideal. The Eze situation for example (let's be clear, the only reason the goons bought him was because Havaertz got injured - they didn't really want him before that- we lost a prime target in a one-horse race because we dithered and dithered). He was the greatest business chairman the Premier League has ever seen in one sense. He was a poor football operations chairman because he could never separate his business brain from the football side. I do think, on balance, throwing him 100% under any bus is wholly wrong. As has been said by several already,the Lewis Family own the club and he was their chief cook and bottlewasher, so much of everything is shared with them whichever way you slice it. Put it this way, I doubt the Lewis family were upset with him as their investment soared.
 
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