The situation is as follows. We have a serial winner in Paratici (as Director of Football), working in tandem with a serial winner in Antonio Conte (as Manager), unfortunately under the footballing stewardship/chairmanship of a serial loser in Levy and anyone who thinks that Levy, as ENIC’s representative on Earth, is going to change the modus operandae of the club, for the benefit of Antonio Conte, let alone the fan base, is gravely deluded.
Levy will continue to peddle the fraudulent mantra that we are ‘a self-sustaining’ club, which is a euphemism for ‘we don’t invest our own money in the club’, whilst in reality saddling the club with $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars worth) of debt-financed real-estate, collateralized against THFC, manifestly not financial proceeds derived from ‘self-sustainment! Is Levy going to similarly debt finance the purchase of the players we actually need, to regain our top 4 status? Not a chance!
Levy will attempt, as always, to build the team on the cheap. Manifestly he has hired Paratici to replicate Juventus’s strategy of paying big wages to acquire ‘out-of-contract, big-name players, on free transfers. However, under Levy our transfer dealings will continue to be drawn-out, protracted affairs, involving haggling over minutiae, going back on agreements, quibbling over payment terms, etc. The leper, pardon me, leopard, is not going to change his spots!
Notwithstanding the huge impediment of Levy at the helm, I do expect to see an improvement in performance under a world-class coach like Conte and better player acquisition under Paratici, now that abject nonentity Hitchin has been relegated to a wholly subordinate role. Nevertheless, I remain entirely cynical that any silverware will ensue, in spite of the honest endeavours of the two Italians. Our best hope frankly remains a buy-out by a world-class outfit like Amazon, to finally remove the parasitical ENIC axis from our midst.