Whatever happened to 'speculate to accumulate'
The way I see it is that FSG have done fairly well by halting the unnecessary waste of money, ie; overrated players including inflated wages, all well & good, however,
We as a club need to be competing not only on the pitch but in transfer windows also, now I'm not expecting the sort of money the likes of Citeh or Chavs can band about but I do expect our owners to invest monies generated by their cost cutting, sales, tv money, sponsors, marketing, advertising and any other means that generate funds,
To have a net spend of -£5m put it simply is not of a club with CL ambitions, JWH and his cronies probably have the best plans and intentions but we will only see these come to fruition if monies generated are used to bring the type of investment that will help achieve our ultimate goal,
At this moment in time we are in a fairly decent position having a more balanced 'group' but it needs that extra ingredient that takes us up another level,
Whether that ingredient is available, fits the ideal, is the right price, with a wage structure that's accommodating, remains to be seen,
But wait, didn't our owners know what was required at the end of last season, ?was Brendan not communicating with his employers all that time?
Is it fair to assume that monies was available as early as June, ?
After all if plans were afoot to unload players surplus to requirements, cut over excessive wages, etc is it fair to assume therefore that money would/could be recouped, had they acted earlier by finding those now elusive marquee signing(s),
I can't for the life of me understand why as a club of our standing waits until this late hour trying to sign players 'for the team' would it not have made more sense to sign the marquee players first and then bring in the squad players ?
Maybe had we acted early Suarez would not have cold feet and witnessed a more ambitious stand from our owners ?
Just saying like !
YNWA
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