11-03-2019, 06:13 PM
(Edited 11-03-2019, 06:14 PM by Shuto Makino.)
It's possible that we're just bad at scouting etc, but seems out of keeping with the rest of Levein's career - although it could be a case of his contacts dropping out of the game as he/they get older. It still strikes me as unlikely that someone who's been in football for decades isn't able to work out that Youtube videos might not always be reliable, after getting stung several times.
This hot take is partly conditioned, Lawson-style, by me having recently read an article about money laundering in football, but what came through in that article was that it's totally rife. We already know, or strongly suspect, that the current regime is doing things that are on the verges of legality in terms of who is getting contracts to carry out construction work - it doesn't seem impossible that other dodgy business might be going on. I think there's a tendency to think it couldn't happen with an old granny in charge, but as far as stuff like this goes it isn't all about obvious gangster figures.
Edit: this is all obviously total conjecture. I'm just saying it's possible
This hot take is partly conditioned, Lawson-style, by me having recently read an article about money laundering in football, but what came through in that article was that it's totally rife. We already know, or strongly suspect, that the current regime is doing things that are on the verges of legality in terms of who is getting contracts to carry out construction work - it doesn't seem impossible that other dodgy business might be going on. I think there's a tendency to think it couldn't happen with an old granny in charge, but as far as stuff like this goes it isn't all about obvious gangster figures.
Edit: this is all obviously total conjecture. I'm just saying it's possible