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You can't run a football club for 20+ years and not make mistakes, that is something I think a lot of people fail to get. OF COURSE he's made mistakes, lots of them, but overall he's been hugely positive for the club. No one is suggesting he's been perfect.I agree, some of those matches we should have won. The FA Cup semi final v Portsmouth stands out. But in a lot of those cases we lost to teams who would expect to beat us because they were better because they had better squads. For instance the league cup finals v Chelsea and Man C, the Champions League final v Liverpool. And at other times we arguably took our eye off the ball because of the relentless focus on finishing in the top four.
I think most balanced posters accept that overall Levy has done a good job. And if the project now all comes to fruition you would have to say he has done in an excellent job over the long term. But what I often notice in threads all over this site is people overcompensating. So you have posters saying we should be protesting to get Levy out when we’re in a rough patch but then as soon as things are going well we have posters saying he is virtually faultless. There’s always these massive pendulum swings.
Surely the right answer is that he’s made plenty of individual mistakes and potentially we could have won a couple more trophies and even a league title or two if he had been slightly less cautious at times. But overall, and especially over the long term, he has done well and potentially we are moving to a new phase where his long term strategy is going to pay off big time.