We simply cannot afford the calibre of players that Man Utd / Real Madrid etc can afford right now. It's funny how nobody has responded to the Leeds references. Their 'hugely successful transfer policy' (remember Rio Ferdinand, Harry Kewell, Mark Viduka etc) worked wonders for them, right?
At least their supporters have the comfort of knowing that the owners of their club at the time were 'ambitious'. I bet that helps them with the League One / Championship away journeys.
I’ll respond to the Leeds sh*t. It is a f**king nonsense.
Leeds were deep in the red, leveraged to the eyeballs and spending well beyond their means and banking on regular CL qualification to just meet their obligations. They certainly weren’t one of the top 10 richest clubs in the world.
We on the other hand are one of the richest football clubs ON THE PLANET. We compete at a time when the television deals with sky and BT just hit close to ONE BILLION POUNDS.
We are not in debt. We are just sold a football for what was the second highest transfer fee OF ALL TIME.
We have one of the biggest fan bases, you guessed it, ON THE PLANET. And we operate sell to buy?
Now, don’t you think, maybe, just maybe considering the above facts, which are indisputable, that we should perhaps have won more than 1 league cup in the last 10 years? That we should perhaps be able to spend more than 15 mill per window on average? That we maybe shouldn’t have a squad where Simon mignolet and Alberto Moreno and Danny f**king Ings form a part of it?
I dread the day that Jürgen sees he is being bullshitted because the next man through the door is Eddie f**king Howe, I’ve absolutely no doubt about it.
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