Excellent news, hope it’s true. Curious to see what his dynamic with Lange will be.was at the game with levy today? so they say on ftl. also supposedly will be back once his ban ends and working for us as a consultant in the meantime
He's just a "consultant", it's all above board, honest guv.Farcical that he's allowed to be involved at all but hey...if the authorities aren't going to crack down on the likes of City and Chelsea we may as well do what we can to even the playing field.
With hindsight it's funny people questioned his impact at Juventus when we brought him in.Guess who signed Dragusin for Juve at 18yrs old.
Recruitment wise yes fantastic, but let’s not forget he pulled the plug on Fonseca who’d have been a good fit for us and went instead for Nuno, he then brought Conte who was overall a disaster and a terrible fit, both moves messed us up for a few years.I'm probably going a bit over the top with this, but he has almost single handedly turned the club around, what an excellent appointment by Levy.
The rebuild has been done by Paratici and it's not too far away from being completed.
Just take a look at our squad when he joined and now. These are the players currently in our squad from when he arrived...
Davies (back up)
Dier (reserve) to be released
Sess (?)
Hoijberg (back up) to be sold
Skipp (reserve)
GLC (back up)
Son
So, discounting Dier, 5 first team squad players and only one starter (when everyone is fit). Quite a few out on loan as well.
Vicario, Foster, Emerson, Porro, Romero, VDV, Udogie, Sarr, Bentancur, Bissouma, Maddison, Gil, Johnson, Peresic, Soloman, Richarlison, Kulusevski, Veliz. 18 players, that's a squad right there.
Out of 18 Gil, Veliz and Soloman are the only ones that have not made an impact so far (and there's still time). If they were all fit, I'd expect almost all of them to be part of the match day squad.
That is nothing short of spectacular in 2 and a half years. Also if you remove the free transfers of Forster and Peresic most of the signings are under 27.
Statue time, everything he touches turns to gold.