Thankfully we kept Messi..."cough" Joe Cole he is one part of the wage bill that should make everyone proud.
Thre are many parts of our wage bill mate which are a joke and it was/is entirely legitimate to ask the new manager to make inroads. He's moved on though Maxi, Aquilani, Kuyt, Carroll, Spearing and Adam off the top of my head, and that must be around 500K per week. By all accounts he's spending around 100K per week of that on signings, so that's not too bad an effort.
Carroll (35 mill) and Aquilani (20 mill) combined cost more than he's spent by a mile, while even the sales of Kuyt and Adam brought in a fifth of his spend.
What I'm asking is that the owners at least give the man a chance. They can't ask him to move so many players on and then leave us with only one recognised striker, it's complete and utter false economy. By leaving the Dempsey situation so long, they have now allowed Fulham to have us by the bollocks. He is now our ONLY realistic option, and with the greatest respect to Fulham whether he stays or goes isn't going to have an impact on their season one way or the other. They'll still get 4 mill for him in January (maybe more) so they can quite happily tell us to stick it up our arses if they so wish. We might end up paying MORE than 7 mill, and it's our own fault.
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