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Looking at Levien on SKY Sports news last night unveiling Rooney, I'm more convinced than ever we need to get them out.
It was clear he was not a fan of DC United even but is running it as a business.
Reading between the lines, and the fact that he made Potter fly to America last week to discuss transfer plans etc. We are stuck with HJ etc for the foreseeable to run things here.
We need of course to get behind GP and the team and I am looking forward to that but it seems that we need to keep the pressure on the other front!
The nerves those two tw@t have to discuss Mawson's potential sale with their "you know how hard the nature of the market is" bullsh!t,at the same time they're unveiling Wayne f*cking Rooney for their American "soccer" sh!te team..Disgusting.
100% not. They're owned by a different hedge fund than we are, Levein is the only common factor.
What money could they have taken out, anyway? We almost certainly made a tidy loss last season.
The club made 13.5 m in profit for their first year in charge.
Which is over 10% profit when you consider the profit/turnover ratio. Which is decent for a football club.
The scum don't want to invest money into the club. They want the club to generate its expenses by itself by selling best players and use it to buy more, cheaper alternatives. All the while try to skim what's left of in their pockets. That's why we're going to play bloody Sheffield United on 7 August.
The club made 13.5 m in profit for their first year in charge.
Which is over 10% profit when you consider the profit/turnover ratio. Which is decent for a football club.
The scum don't want to invest money into the club. They want the club to generate its expenses by itself by selling best players and use it to buy more, cheaper alternatives. All the while try to skim what's left of in their pockets. That's why we're going to play bloody Sheffield United on 7 August.
I don't see a lot wrong with football clubs being run within their means, to be honest.
They could have made a lot of money last season if they wanted to asset strip, but instead they reinvested the club's money in expensive shite. We didn't go down because they were skimming off the top, we went down because the players we bought were bad. They could have given Jenkins £20m from between their sofa cushions and it wouldn't have helped (is there a third Ayew brother somewhere?)
The nerves those two tw@t have to discuss Mawson's potential sale with their "you know how hard the nature of the market is" bullsh!t,at the same time they're unveiling Wayne f*cking Rooney for their American "soccer" sh!te team..Disgusting.
Not sticking up for them here, I want them out as soon as possible, but it’s not as if they are using our money on Wayne Rooney. They run us with the income we generate. I’d imagine Levien does the same over there?
I don't see a lot wrong with football clubs being run within their means, to be honest.
They could have made a lot of money last season if they wanted to asset strip, but instead they reinvested the club's money in expensive shite. We didn't go down because they were skimming off the top, we went down because the players we bought were bad. They could have given Jenkins £20m from between their sofa cushions and it wouldn't have helped (is there a third Ayew brother somewhere?)
No club can sustain success by spending what they make off sales. And clearly, sometimes even spending doesn't work out if the recruitment goes wrong (WBA last season invested heavily and we all saw what happened to them).
So imagine spending only from sales (The owners surely didn't expect to have a player like Siggy to sell for + 40 m every year,unless they're completely bonkers of course)..And on top of that spending whatever we spent on bad players or unfit ones. No sh!t we were relegated.
Selling Siggy for the amount of money we've received was the right call. Llorente too obviously due to his age and contract status. But that was a one year thing. If we survived, The Americans would have said "oh well sell Mawson..that's your transfer budget for the season. See how generous?"
That's the f*cking problem. what if we didn't have players that would sell for really big money that's worth losing them for? We have an ageing squad in many parts..How to replace them?
They gave no assurances to the fans that they'd be willing to actually invest from their own money. Ever.
Anyway there is no point in arguing this anymore. Things in the championship are different. And obviously for the worst in terms of selling and buying cheap.
Not sticking up for them here, I want them out as soon as possible, but it’s not as if they are using our money on Wayne Rooney. They run us with the income we generate. I’d imagine Levien does the same over there?
I doubt it mate.
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"Reading between the lines, and the fact that he made Potter fly to America last week to discuss transfer plans etc. We are stuck with HJ etc for the foreseeable to run things here".
I see it that they are not trusting HJ and wanted to speak to potter directly, cutting out the middle man, and planing a way forward. We may never know the facts, including a possible contract, between HJ and the Americans, but I see this as a very positive move and a slight to HJ.
Fact is..Potter wouldn't have accepted a move here if he wasn't promised certain things to get going. Sizeable budget (for the championship of course) and such. After all he wasn't in a rush to leave Sweden.
But whether Levien and his friends keep their promises. That's a different matter.
"Reading between the lines, and the fact that he made Potter fly to America last week to discuss transfer plans etc. We are stuck with HJ etc for the foreseeable to run things here".
I see it that they are not trusting HJ and wanted to speak to potter directly, cutting out the middle man, and planing a way forward. We may never know the facts, including a possible contract, between HJ and the Americans, but I see this as a very positive move and a slight to HJ.
You really could look at that either way.
You can make a persuasive argument for:
Now we’re out of the PL, we’re a much lower priority and HJ can run the club. They don’t have a lot of confidence in him, so essentially excluded him.
Now we’re out of the PL, we’re a much lower priority and HJ can run the club. They don’t have a lot of confidence in him, so essentially excluded him.
I really hope you’re right.
If they trusted HJ he would have been included, more to the point, they would have left it to him. By this move it looks as if HJ is NOT running the club. Mistakes have been learnt and sacking the whole of the scouting team proves this point. IMO HJ is on borrowed time.
Fact is..Potter wouldn't have accepted a move here if he wasn't promised certain things to get going. Sizeable budget (for the championship of course) and such. After all he wasn't in a rush to leave Sweden.
But whether Levien and his friends keep their promises. That's a different matter.
Or...
He wanted a managerial job within Britain to raise his profile here and make the big bucks?
Fail? Well, it's your owners fault. Succeed? Did it despite your owners...
If they trusted HJ he would have been included, more to the point, they would have left it to him. By this move it looks as if HJ is NOT running the club. Mistakes have been learnt and sacking the whole of the scouting team proves this point. IMO HJ is on borrowed time.
Hopefully. I kind of think it would have happened by now if it was going to happen. Maybe that’s just me being pessimistic. Other worry is that if he isn’t running the club, who is? I’d rather he did it than 2 disinterested hedge fund managers and Pearlman.
From wha I understand of US sport a player like Rooney - big reputation, well known - will more or less pay for himself with additional sales and percentage take on club endorsements. Whereas in the UK he'd e seen as an expensive has-been.
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