Being positive I am sure you agree with me that we will be challenging for the title next season? That is what positivity is mate, not how many goals we nearly scored or how often we didn't allow a shot on goal.
Nah Saint positivity is a feeling you get, it's an intangible emotion that manifests itself from all the variables and I don't need us to challenge for the title next season to remain positive. I have a feeling we wont next year, I think what will happen is people will play the "this is Jürgen's second year etc etc" but in fact it will be his first year with his new signings and expecting consistency will be a step too far and we'll have too many minor hiccups along the way to be real title contenders. Doesn't stop me remaining positive because I think we will see progress from now on until the point we do win the title under Jürgen. I'm sticking to my initial prediction of 5 years but Jürgen suggested 4 so I wouldn't argue with that, but in his first proper full season, no I don't think he'll manage that.
Points win prizes and if we want to win the premiership we need to accumulate more points than our rivals.
Obviously.
Cups are a completely different thing mate, you don't need to be consistent to win a cup, to win the league you have to be consistently good throughout a long season. Top quality players help you gain that consistency which other players may not.
Again, obviously, hence why I suggested the above mate.
So while I enjoyed our cup runs I don't believe that we ever had a chance of winning the league last season.
Neither did I, told people as much as soon as the "we might win the league this season" thread opened, said they were setting themselves up for disappointment and I hope a few listened.
I do think if we address our problems we can win it or have a bloody good go at it this time, but to address our problems we do need to bring in quality.
Obviously we agree here about quality, I just don't agree that quality always comes at a price as Jürgen has proven before and one of the main reasons why I wanted him brought in as our manager. I neither believe he's a magician but a magician's job is to perform an illusion, when Jürgen delivers the title it will be neither an illusion nor a trick but it will be magical.
Being positive is not seeing everything in a rosy hue mate, it is seeing thing as they really are and the truth is our squad wasn't good enough for a title challenge and we need to add quality to make it good enough.
I've always been someone who has dealt with the truth rather than the veil that is pulled across. Being positive also doesn't suggest that you believe that we're currently in a position to challenge but it is the feeling that the chance is finally there for you to make strides on the opposition who already have a march on you.
I think what you're confusing me having is blind optimism to positivity S@int and I'm not blind to the fact that we don't have owners who will invest to the levels that some of those above will. Therefore we're already at a handicap so to speak, so we need that advantage they don't have and I do believe that Jürgen is our advantage and do believe he can make the difference that money can't. For him to do so he needs to not only get more out of less but he must buy smarter, something many of us have been suggesting for a long time and now he's attempting to do it there seems to be this looking down your nose stance towards it.
Let's put it this way if:
We'd bought the 2nd best goal-keeper in Germany for £20m nobody would have batted an eyelid on the price but they'd have talked it up even more, that's the truth.
We'd bought one of the best CBs in Germany for £25m nobody would have batted an eyelid on the price but they'd have talked it up even more, that's the truth.
We'd bought one of the top youth talents around for £25m nobody would have batted an eyelid on the price but they'd have talked it up even more, that's the truth.
The fact we've managed this for around £10m should just give us more reason to feel hopeful that even more quality can be brought in and that's why I'm positive moving forward and wont allow any amount of negativity to drag me down.