I think it’s important to say that there are a few folks here criticising the club, Levy, for something very specific. It is the chaos of the managerial search that leaves us sacking Jose and moving from Poch to Gattuso, after supposedly filing permits for Fonseca.
There seems to be some argument creep in the defence of the club, which is that people are ‘losing their brick on every Twitter rumour’ or something similar. This is NOT what is happening. No one is losing their brick over every Twitter rumour. We’ve been linked to Gaspierini on Twitter. No one considers it something to lose their brick over, because it wasn’t reported by anyone with close links.
The point, very specifically, is that when Gold, Kirkpatrick, Pitt-Brooke / Ornstein report it, it has probably had some sort of confirmation or boost from the club. These all reported Paratici with certainty, a month before he was announced. People seem to want to be saying either they picked up a rumour from Italy and got lucky with Paratici, or that they are just making things up. Which are incredible lengths to go to, to defend the club, rather than to just accept that journalists with links to the club are reporting what they have been told.
And if we can remotely accept that they are reporting what they have been told, then as you say, this search has been chaos. There has clearly not been a plan. It clearly isn’t a job the top, most proven coaches want. I think it’s perfectly fine to question all of that as a fanbase.