This oncoming transfer window is giving every impression that it’s going to be a remake of The Longest Day.
As per my earlier piece we’re in for perhaps more speculation than most sides. A front line that a house clearance company wouldn’t take away and suitors for their positions will certainly arrive by chartered coach.
Bale to…? Modders to…?
But that’s much duller than the undercurrent of rumour relating to our tight lipped ashen faced supremo and Levy & Co. This chitter chatterhas been doing the rounds for a good few weeks and I thought I’d threaten my Dairylea server with the subject a while. My questions are – what’s up, if anything and is it believable?
Giving some chronological order to matters unless anyone out there has ‘fresher meat’ the last public comment we got was in the closing days of the last window when Citizen Redschnapps was giving us Larry Large out of his car window with that ‘The chairman wants to spend’ schtick.
So now we are supposed to swallow the tale that Levy & Co are suddenly revealed (‘At long last!’ cry the Communists in the cheap seats) as the purely money grabbing agents of ENIC: the football Death Star – we knew them to be all along.
Question to the tree hugging Customer Reference Number in the front row: How long have ENIC & Levy been at this THFC long firm lark now and when are you ever going to wind it in?
Every season this hairbrained conspiracy theory that Levy is a bagman man for the ENIC mob emerges. It’s laughable. There sadly appears to be a decent raft of fans out there who are prepared to operate very selectively when it comes to facts. Which to embrace, which to twist or worse still absolutely ignore.
So is there a rift or not? Ha. I speculate that there is. Arry hummed, Haaah’d and fecked about in the last window. We know this as he banked upon our existing strikers coming good. They did not. The epitaph to this fantasy that didn’t pan out was 3MP’s own goal. Nail, might I introduce coffin?
Levy I imagine, is rightly furious with Arry. There’s been some mismanagement at the highest level. It’s his job to select the team and with no Director Of Football on the manor it’s his job to assimilate all the scouting info and select targets.
I called Benzema based upon good info. It didn’t happen and ordinarily you never hear why. When you’ve stuck your neck out like I did, you care even less. But Benzema was very much in place. But for a move, not a loan. Arry hesistated I am told. He believed that ‘his boys’ would come good.
So Levy’s a saint and Arry’s the devil? Didn’t know that H -Thanks for clearing that one up. Case closed. Nothing to see here. Go back to your homes. Of course not. Levy must frustrate Arry at every turn. Wanna flog a right back to a geezer in a motor who’s as safe as houses who’s in a right two and eight? The response of Portsmouth’s director probably translated as, ‘This is very exciting, isn’t it!’ Anyone want to defend that schmuck might wish to take a crash course in ‘Doing Sums’.
The wage cap based upon how much we earn as a business is a dog. I wouldn’t have the self control. Few amongst you would. I say this as few actual real life football club directors bother to pay it much attention.
The wage cap is a muzzle. We know that. But it’s down to Arry to manage. Every business has it’s restraints. Which leads me neatly on to… where has all this rift talk come from?
Well, one of the parties concerned can’t go to buy a paper without phoning talk SPORT. The other one has steered a football club away from obvious and irressistable perils for some time now.
BIOYC!
we have won 15 games this season, lost 8 and drawn 14 – not CL standard by a long shot
we believe we can fly
I’m outraged by your sanity, in your last message, Sid.
Apolgies are in order – I had a kazoo stuck in my giblets, which were in the freezer at the time. Won’t happen again
i think i’m the only one who doesn’t know who this footballer is in this whole twitter malarkey,do tell someone,
have our strikers been to busy with super injuctions to worry about scoring,it must take its toil,what with the northwest football drug epidemic too,its a tough life
maybe we should stump up 150m quid and stick ronaldo upfront he might score
in the cut and thrust of emotion and dissapointment of losing the all important status of 4th,i think old sloppy can have another go,we did beat the scum at their nice caravan after all,who knows what will happen over the summer its a funny old game and anything is possible,nearly time to put the brum out of their misery and play the youth,fringe and j**** in the ropa
COYS
what and where is absolute radio extra,according to the ad uptop its how can listen to the game
i assume its some digi radio station
Harry has done a great job. Let’s be honest how much crap did we watch until the last few years (and yes Jol and Arnesen started it), but the quality of football, and Harry’s ability to drive players to improve and (in the main) perform is bloody fantastic (BaE, Hudd), and he’s taught Lennon how to look up when at the bye line and cross a ball.. and to be honest that deserves some recognition. Let him keep talking….I think he’s earn’t the right to.
But Levy has fundamentally done a better one over a longer period of time. If, for whatever reason over the next couple of years Harry leaves, we will get an excellent manager in, because of how we’ve improved as a team and club.
Levy has learned lessons in respect of dodgy management (Hoddle -sad but true -,Ramos), and how not to treat managers (Jol – which still is frankly appalling) – he will not (and should not) sack Redknapp. The next manager will move us up another level (as Redknapp has done) …period – everything at the club is secure and in place – with the new stadium potentially going on.
We are the only British owned club in the top 6, and one of the few in the Premier League, despite the fact that ENIC stumped up £15m for the CL last year – we are loaded and financially secure, we’ve not sold the soul of the club and its history out – that is something to be immensely proud of – and we do have a bloody good team that ran out of steam in the last couple of months.
The Liverpool game showed that we are better than where we finished in the league – (like Van der Vaart said – ” I wasn’t worried about the Liverpool game, because we have better players”) but come on (hopefully) 5th in the league and the quarter finals of the CL (?) – jeez – a few years ago we’d have gone nuts to get that.
The young players we have look pretty good too (Cauldwell looks genuine class, Townsend, Rose – all quality).
I think a bit of perspective over a bad couple of months run in the league is worth having – the club is moving in the right direction, we just need to keep building…. I would guess that Levy knows that he’ll need to give Harry a few quid for one or two real top quality signings this summer – but Levy will see this in the longer term. The club is moving forward and I don’t get the feeling we’re going to blow up financially – and some clubs around us in the league will.
Think about it – no-one really takes the piss out of us any more for being crap…. we’re a proper club and team again and have got some pride back after almost 20 years of nothingness – and both Levy and Redknapp have helped that happen.
Oh – and HH – keep it going bruv.
Two bits of good news in todays press.
Modric confirms he is happy & is staying.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12876_6943099,00.html
‘Arry confirms he is looking at keepers (sort of).
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/91920.html?CMP=OTC-RSS