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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    These are all fair points from SJ. Thing he misses though is that Levy was with us last summer. The money was available, the way we engaged with the market had changed. And I just don’t think Levy could hang. So I don’t really agree that had Levy had this extra capital to get around the...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    This is absolutely correct. And then once the stadium is built, and we can pay higher wages, and we have more commercial revenues, and billionaire owners, what is the reason then we can’t do what Liverpool have done? Levy deserves all the credit for getting us in that conversation. But then we...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    I think it’s also strange in the other direction, he’d pay fairly big money for certain players if he felt like the club had a weakness to exploit, because that would help his sense of getting a ‘good deal’. It wasn’t about whether that player fit perfectly with what the manager tried to do, it...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    Neither do i?
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    Yeah I just genuinely don’t think DL would even think he has anything to be embarrassed about by his view on the deal being out there. He probably thinks it makes him look better.
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    I do agree. Why I caveated ‘for the purposes of this conversation’ because GHod knows I have my worries about why Vinai kept Frank for so long. I too am fascinated by the Lewis kids. I initially thought they’d want to sell and any claim that they didn’t want that was just posturing to drive up...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    I think SJ and DL are mates, and I agree that it’s weird for SJ to allow a private text to make its way on air. I think what it says though is that DL doesn’t think his view is embarrassing, he probably thinks it makes him look better. And I think that says it all.
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    I think we’ll be ok. The annoying thing about our CEO is that he used to run Arsenal. But for the purposes of this conversation, the good thing is that he used to run Arsenal. He isn’t coming fresh off a club with PSR breaches, he’s not joining from a place that took crazy risks for short term...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    I think so much of Levy’s thinking was also shaped by not ‘doing a Leeds’ because he came into it around the time that they were risking everything and ultimately came up short. I think through his lens, the stadium was ultimately something that would mean the club was on a stable footing for...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    Yeah; the funny thing looking back is that Levy just had this idea of what players were valued at. GHod knows how he came to that conclusion most of the time but he never seemed to really factor in ‘how much more successful would we be if the manager gets this player that he really wants, and how...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    Totally agreed. (Although I would add that in terms of infrastructure building he’s in a different league to even the modern chairs, and the smarts required to pull that off, keep us in our postcode etc was exceptional, just a shame he couldn’t translate to the football side) The sad thing is...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    There is an absolutely FASCINATING clip I’ve just seen on talk sport where Simon Jordan is sharing that Levy texted him implying that Spurs have had their pants pulled down over the JPVH deal. Saying that it is one of the largest fees paid for a soon to be out of contract player, etc etc. And...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    Yeah, well that’s the other side of it. Villa did the easier thing, the thing that we should be able to do with a more robust and sustainable platform once the stadium was built. But I don’t think Levy ever quite shifted gears enough to truly take advantage of what he had built. The foresight...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    Yeah…it also makes me laugh when Villa fans get annoyed at us because of PSR, We - because of Levy - did one of the HARDEST things in football. We made an intentional decision to do a massively complex stadium project which we knew would increase our revenues but (were it for Poch) could have...
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