Disappointing stuff from the usually excellent Tifo and one cannot help but wonder if The Atheltic’s golden handcuffs have caused them to produce a 5-minute video that ultimately told us nothing – simply to fulfil a contractual obligation? Mourinho will be expensive to pay off and the moral of the story – that no manager has ever or will ever flourish under ENIC – will be lost in the anti-Mourinho white noise.
This has been another horrible ENIC deal, in keeping with so many others. I’m tired of all of this, but more importantly utterly frustrated that there is no way out.
after 20 years I think it’s time to put the incompetent levy idea to bed. The little whatnot knows exactly what he is doing . We need to realise this is the plan
(no matter how many stupid things Danny does)
Mourinho was a risk at much more than a financial level. It should’ve been obvious to Levy that his pragmatic style of play was at complete odds with what the playing staff had been used to for a long time; and that it was going to take some serious mastery, and money, in the transfer market, in order to give Mourinho the tools to take us forward. And we all know that was never going to happen, whatever line he was spun
Absolutely correct.Levy hasn’t quite come to terms with the correlation that player investment is linked to success.
On the subject of Levy’s utter incompetence as the CEO of a football club, would any of our legion of statisticians be able to come up with some financial estimates as to how much the merry go round of managers, DoFs, scouts, assistant managers, medical staff and coaching staff and technical analysts have cost the club under Levy’s hopeless reign, leaving aside the the debt he’s responsible and the twenty two years of failure?
Levy’s rationale was to spend £15m pa on JM and not spend on players – as per…
Mourinho was obviously at is best when negotiating the contract with the supposedly ‘difficult to deal with’ Levy, and walked all over him, it shows how desperate our leader was to secure the manager of his dreams, which sadly only proves how deluded Levy has been in his plans for the club.
Full credit to Jose for apparently securing such a watertight deal. For Levy however it does call into account his supposedly brilliant negotiating skills.
He had been out of work for a year. I can’t recall what vacancies occurred over this period but it seemed to me clubs weren’t rushing to offer him employment. In such a scenario why would anyone offer such a huge salary against the going rate for managers?
Jose is high maintenance. His terms of office have often been a mixture of triumphs and then implosions. Why would Levy not have inserted a break clause in the contract to cover such a possibility?
Compared to his stadium mismanagement the sums of this contract are insignificant but it does call into question the acumen of our chairman
Astonishing incompetence and lack of foresight from Levy if he is contractually obligated to pay up the entirety of the remainder of Mourinho’s contract, in order to part company with him.
Given Mourinho’s recent track record, it would have been optimistic, to the point of utter naivety, to endorse a 3 1/2 year deal with no ‘get out’ clause.
Having said that, I supported the Mourinho hire and believed the potential of winning some silverware before his tenure inevitably imploded was a risk was worth taking.
Unfortunately, barring a miraculous result next weekend, it would appear that Mourinho’s inevitable implosion has occurred prior to the need to employ a full time silver polisher!
There is always a way out of this by Enic staying away of football side of the business which they don’t have any expertise so simple right man in the right position leave for the football side of business for the people who knows football.
Yep. Hence RIP THFC.