That's twice now, with Sky Sports and ESPN they've come out speaking about the 'negativity' being caused by the fan's frustration. Honestly fecking do one. The negativity is caused by your absolute incompetence for two decades now. You got extremely lucky having the best manager arguably in sporting history and since he's left, you've been completely exposed since and I think the fans are honestly just beginning to get sick to death of it.
It's not about the spending, we've spent money in the past few years, but there's a caveat. It was to account for the lack of spending under SAF, to catch up, it was desperation which severely lacked any forward planning or vision. They hadn't spent a cent of their own money, that was all club generated revenue, whilst they took out a feck tonne of dividend payments, not to add, the money is only ever spent as desperation in years we do not get the CL revenue which makes their intentions clear. Let's not even begin in how fecking poor the actual signings being made are/were.
Deadwood are given extended contracts which makes it impossible for them to feck off, essentially stealing a living here. Contract extensions are given extremely easily, resulting in players earning extremely large wages. Managers are signed with completely different footballing ideologies, making a manager's ability to hit the ground running fecked from the start as basically every manager we've had has had to completely sign a whole new squad. It's a constant cycle of delaying potential competitiveness.
I don't buy the Covid excuse either. They bought the club on debt, we've been in debt and fallen into more debt since they've came in feck knows how long ago now, but suddenly they're so scared of the financial implications of their actions and potentially falling a little further in debt? Feck off. If you really were so impacted by Covid and worried of it's implications to the club, help the club out by not taking out your next dividend payments. I'm sure the club will be fine to pay that out to the Glazers though.
The worst part is, they're either extremely oblivious and thick or simply just don't give a feck, because to anyone with half a brain, it's quite obvious they have feck all idea how to get us back to the top and competitive, yet they have seemingly zero interest in implementing any change in personnel or structure. Implementing the required change would result in a much happier fan base, more success on the pitch, which will also lead to more success off the pitch. Increased intrigue, resulting in more fans/revenue. It benefits both the fans AND the Glazers. Yet they refuse to give up power or delegate responsibility effectively, or simply just don't know how to. With proper planning, it would also result in a lesser need to spend so much fecking money every summer, cause we'd have a team that would just need to be refreshed, rather than having to sign half a squad every summer. Instead of actually implementing this change, we'll go through the same motions. Have a shit summer, drop out of the top 4, hire a new manager with a completely different identity, whoever the biggest name available is, go crazy and sign half a new team and brief we are interested in a DOF, rinse and repeat.
I hope we maintain this pressure on them. Pundits and ex players are beginning to pick up on it too. If there's one thing that's evident now, they fecking hate negative PR. 'Your frustration at our ineptitude is creating a negative atmosphere which will impact the start of our season'
Feck off