For FSG to remain consistent BBB, they wouldn't have to sack Brendan whatsoever. It all depends on what KK said he could do for the club. I have a sneaking feeling Kenny said he could get Champions League, he finished well outside that remit. Brendan hasn't, it seems, put himself under those constrictions and so, for FSG, to remain consistent, they'd sack him if he failed to reach his targets which aren't as high as Kenny's were, if I recall Brendan actually said this would be a tough, painful, transition season and he's got that spot on thus far.
Now I know some will say that that point of view is dumbing down expectations. So what? We're aren't in a fit state to challenge for the league, we've barely even bothered it in nigh on a quarter of a century, save a couple of first loser finishes. Now FSG have made some cock-ups in their time here, but they've stated they are willing to learn and say they have the best interest of the club at heart and if that means that they want the club to be self-sufficient, then fine, I have little or no time for sugar daddy owners and never will. I know they've trimmed the wage bill, it needed it, christ us fans moaned like F**k about deadwood clogging up the wage bill and the biggest moans were reserved for Maxi, Bellamy and Kuyt, who all wanted out of the club. Kuyt the only one who could have maybe stayed, but he activated the clause in his contract. So with the wage bill reduced, necessary though done a tad too harshly in my book and three players gone who wanted out, situations which fans, on the whole, have always said, if they don't want to be here, let them go, yet that wasn't the reaction that occurred this time, when it was put into practice.
I believe one thing for certain though, for fans to remain consistent, that would require a higher power and I have no belief in any version of the Sky Bully.
I've gone on record before and said I think this is going to be a two-three year slog to get back to even bothering the Champion League spots, unless we get every transfer window spot on in the next 18 months, a nigh on impossible task and not just because of financial implications but simply because sometimes transfers don't work out as is more than apparent from 2011 window. My biggest problem is that despite a lot spouting the patience dogma, has our fan base really got the patience for this journey? Or maybe they want Man City/Chelsea style spending, in which case, we need something that, for me, is abhorrent and that's a sugar daddy.
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