BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Hello,
Here are the league positions we finished in the 10 years before I took over, going backwards from 2001 to 1991:
12th
10th
11th
14th
10th
8th
7th
15th
8th
15th
11th
And the 10 years since:
9th
10th
14th
9th
5th
5th
11th
8th
4th
5th
4th
5th
Apart from the period of 1957 - 1963 (our golden era) and 1984 - 1989 (our other golden era), the last few years in the league are just about as successful a period as the club has had in 100 years. Looking back at the past and pining for glory days that didn't exist is kinda silly. We're doing ok.
Regards,
Dan
I guess from that you're saying that because we had someone even more clueless than Levy running the club before he did, he's pretty much immune from criticism?
Levy is great with the finances, I will give him that. He's leveraged our brand to the point where we can spend good money bringing in good players, and deserve to probably b 5th each season, and we get it. That's good, and much better than what we got during the Sugar years.
And if Levy said that his objective for the club was to have as punch at par, then he will have done a terrific job. But my problem is he acts in a way that suggests he thinks we should be challenging for the title, and is utterly clueless about how to make the club take that next step. I'm not saying it would be easy, or even that we deserve it. It would take a bit of luck, a lot of good planning, a lot of correct signings and good coaching bringing the best out of them. So if Levy said at the end of the each season, 'listen guys, we probably have the 6th best budget and we are finishing 5th most times. Top 4 are on a different level to us and we can't realistically expect to get there unless they have an awful season themselves. Let's be content that we are on a stable footing and well equipped to qualify for Europe every season, which was a pipe dream before I took over'. If he said that, fine. I'd get it. Some people would be annoyed at his lack of ambition, but I would understand and I think most rational people would too.
But the way he acts, by sacking managers after giving them 100M worth of players and selling the best player, and replacing him with a man that has admitted he wouldn't have brought in half the players we signed and can't count on some of them, despite sitting on the transfer commitee that is supposed to ensure stability, it's ****ing mental. He tries to shoot above his station too much, and he ends up doing more harm than good every time. It first happened with the Ramos experiment, and it's happening again now. We had a monumental opportunity to really establish a base for ourselves to progress this season, and we monumentally screwed it up. I cannot believe how badly the club played it.
I don't think we will ever get to where Levy wants to get us with Levy in charge. He simply doesn't know how to get us there. His expertise was getting us punching at our weight, and wringing out every bit of potential that allowed us to get to that position. He isn't a guy that's going to help us overachieve. Maybe there is not a chairman that could. But it doesn't have to be a sugar daddy. FSG have shown a relatively small amount of patience with Rodgers after a 7th placed finish and they got rewarded for it. They've shown that you can overachieve with a system and some stability, and keeping your best players.
I don't mind Levy if the goal is to finish 5th every year. If we want that sort of stability, I think he'll deliver it more often than not. But the way he acts like 5th isn't good enough and makes maniacal decisions in the hope of improving upon our level makes us a ****ing laughing stock to the football world. It's an embarrassment, the other clubs probably laugh at how much he has ideas above his station and always falls short.