@AjaxDeSuperYids - spot on. I'm aware I'm..on message on this a lot, but ENIC and Levy are the two biggest roadblocks to literally everything at the club right now.
No ambitious manager will want to work with the sort of shackles that were placed on Poch. If they ask for players to be moved on - too bad for them, Levy won't sanction a loss, even on useless wastes of space and air like Sanchez, Sissoko et al. They'll have to wait until deadline day while Levy haggles over ten quid to keep up his stupid 'tough negotiator' act, because that's all he knows how to do on the footballing side of it.
If they ask for players brought in - ha, good luck getting your first choices out of the skinflints that own us.
Fine, maybe the manager will content himself with overhauling the backroom staff. However, the backroom staff are a morass of mediocrity, but evidently have the chairman's confidence. Steve 'I hate January' Hitchen is proof enough of that. Good luck getting rid of that lot.
There are organizational reasons why we have won nothing under these useless deadweights. As Poch once clearly stated, the club needs to have an organizational culture that focuses excellence, on trophies as the key goal - and all else will follow from there. That comes from the top - and unfortunately, with the useless social leech of a Bahamian tax exile and Levy up top, that culture will never arrive, because the first and foremost concern will always be to avoid the owners having to put in a single penny, and to maintain mediocrity as long as it's profitable.
One of the reasons I want Rangnick is because he doesn't accept that - he fights with people if he feels they aren't up to what he envisions his clubs to be. Someone needs to fight Levy and his utter mediocrity for anything to change. A yes man like Potter or Parker changes nothing in that regard.
We may lose one of the greatest academy products in our history because of the miserable cowardice of our ownership in not building a team to support him. One of the greatest gifts we could have been given, gone because Levy and Lewis are most useless owners we could have had the misfortune to be bought by twenty years ago.
What can honestly, truly change until those two f*ck off?
