ENIC

[Gutter Boy]

He was the best chairman in the league to a point. The next step up to take us to the next level he couldn’t manage. The Nepos have to show they can do that.

As much as I dislike the ENIC model I wanted it to work under Levy. I want it to work now. I don’t want American owners. Too many of them in the league and games abroad will be voted in

They are Bahamians. Is that very different from Americans? They are just absentee owners who only care about their trust fund top-ups.

 

[harr1984]

Whatever they say or do, the masses are going to complain - Just see if they deliver in the summer, simple as that....

 

[DubaiSpur]

Anyway, I hope no one reminds the club that they have left the comment section on, on both the ENIC statement and Carrington's letter from y'day.

 

[Jurgen the German]

This is revisionist bullsħit. levy did NOT have 24 years of failure. Look where we were when he came in and where we were for the majority of his time here.

Post Poch he made some bad decisions no doubt. But to dress that up as equalling 24 years of failure is Bollócks

You’re right that the 24 years weren’t a complete failure. The point, though, is that some people already seem impatient less than a year after Levy’s departure, which feels strange considering the amount of patience and time he was given.

 

[billyiddo]

You’re right that the 24 years weren’t a complete failure. The point, though, is that some people already seem impatient less than a year after Levy’s departure, which feels strange considering the amount of patience and time he was given.

It's because ENIC remain at the top - If it were new owners coming in then I'd expect that there would be a reset of patience.

 

[Lemonade Money]

The problems we found were deeper than we realised and were allowed to build over the last few years.

What the hell does that even mean? Without an explanation this is meaningless.

 

[DubaiSpur]

It's because ENIC remain at the top - If it were new owners coming in then I'd expect that there would be a reset of patience.

Pretty much. Though, the thing that gives me a smidgen of sympathy for Viv Lewis and her brother (and really, I mean an infinitesimally small smidgen here), is that there really does seem to be a generational passing of the torch going on at ENIC, from 90+ year old Joe, to his kids.

The ENIC defined by Joe and his henchman Dan was one thing, and our long and painful history with that miserly regime is what (fairly) causes people to give all this Lewis family waffling a short shrift.

The Lewis kids may or may not run the club in the same way, but certainly they're not Joe and/or Dan. So tarring them with the same brush is a smidge unfair.

Having said that, if the chief sins of Joe and Dan were miserliness and an inability to see the wood for the trees, Viv and her brother seem to have a new sin added on top - of either incompetence, or trusting the wrong people. Which is which will soon become clear, as will any chance of them actually breaking from their dad and his henchman in terms of spending on the club they own.

That statement painted them into a corner. Up to them to find a way out of it.