Lee565
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We seem to believe that we are still up there with european elite clubs and boast that we are big club that the best players and managers want still join and we have thrown money at all these star players like varane, casimero, onana, Maguire, sanchez, ronaldo, di maria, mata, Mount, Antony, pogba, martial, bissaka, lukaku, sancho and the same with managers like lvg, ten hag and mourinho who have all produced dreadful football despite their salary and transfer kitty's.
Then there is the fact that we persuade players to stay at the club with massive jump up in wages like rashford, martial and de gea and plenty more who we ended up struggling to move on because of how we got over excited with dishing out silly contracts to players and mangers for a purple patch.
I look at Newcastle who have callum Wilson and what I would give to have him as our striker over martial, hojlund or rashford. We snubbed trippier because he was not worth 25 million but at the same time we were happy to spunk 45 million on bissaka...., there is bowen who produces a better output than sancho and Antony and you have Newcastle, arsenal, Chelsea, spurs and Brighton all with more competent goalkeepers than us at far less of a transfer price and even our fans were turning their noses up at Raya and sanchez this summer in favour of flavour of the month onana based on his one off match against man City.
Even with managers we would snub good mid table managers at the time like potchettino in favour name value of lvg and even now we are looking at more big name managers like conte, zidane if ten hag got the boot.
Is it not time for the club and fans face reality of that we not the powerhouse we once were and that their is no quick fix of throwing loads of money at the latest hyped up youngster or big name that is looking for a bump in his wages or the latest trendy manger that is being linked to dozens of top half premier league teams.
Should we just humble ourselves and look for either good mid to lower table manager and players from Europe's top leagues or from a top side in one of the far less coveted footballing leagues like Croatia, Belgium, the championship etc.. and also start moving on the varane's, sancho's, casimero's and rashford's as quick as possible even if it is at best just a loan due to their silly wages to put them in the shop window and hope they have a good spell?
Then there is the fact that we persuade players to stay at the club with massive jump up in wages like rashford, martial and de gea and plenty more who we ended up struggling to move on because of how we got over excited with dishing out silly contracts to players and mangers for a purple patch.
I look at Newcastle who have callum Wilson and what I would give to have him as our striker over martial, hojlund or rashford. We snubbed trippier because he was not worth 25 million but at the same time we were happy to spunk 45 million on bissaka...., there is bowen who produces a better output than sancho and Antony and you have Newcastle, arsenal, Chelsea, spurs and Brighton all with more competent goalkeepers than us at far less of a transfer price and even our fans were turning their noses up at Raya and sanchez this summer in favour of flavour of the month onana based on his one off match against man City.
Even with managers we would snub good mid table managers at the time like potchettino in favour name value of lvg and even now we are looking at more big name managers like conte, zidane if ten hag got the boot.
Is it not time for the club and fans face reality of that we not the powerhouse we once were and that their is no quick fix of throwing loads of money at the latest hyped up youngster or big name that is looking for a bump in his wages or the latest trendy manger that is being linked to dozens of top half premier league teams.
Should we just humble ourselves and look for either good mid to lower table manager and players from Europe's top leagues or from a top side in one of the far less coveted footballing leagues like Croatia, Belgium, the championship etc.. and also start moving on the varane's, sancho's, casimero's and rashford's as quick as possible even if it is at best just a loan due to their silly wages to put them in the shop window and hope they have a good spell?