And how does that help the debt?
On the one hand you (and me) are lambasting the Glazers for taking money out of the club and putting it in a bad financial position...and on the other, you're bemoaning us not splashing loads of cash on someone!!.. It's a completely contradictory argument!
I want what's best for this club, as I'm sure do you. Being frugal in our current situation is what is best. You can moan and bleat about what the Glazers have done all you like, but we are still in debt, and even getting rid of them won't guarantee getting rid of it. So splashing the money around helps what exactly? Not the debt at any rate. It just helps some short sighted fans who aren't satisfied with all they've been lucky enough to witness over the last few years....And possibly the kind of mug who wants to actually bankrupt the club in order to force the Glazers out...but then again that mug wouldn't mind seeing us slip down in statue and quality either to achieve that goal.
Yes we'd all like to win the League every year, but we can't (and it would actually become pretty hollow if we did) and we've got to do what's best in the circumstances. We're not exactly in Liverpool's situation are we? We're still doing pretty well...The dual front of "We hate you Glazers/Spend more money" is the least helpful thing possible surely!
Agreed. But the second we stop questioning the movements and motives of the owners is when we give up in my opinion. They shouldn't be in charge of the club if they aren't willing to invest heavily in it's continued competitiveness in every aspect (both financial and on-field).
I'm assuming here that the reason we haven't invested in the best players over the past couple of years is that the Glazers aren't allowing us to have the required funds (or that paying back the debts means that this is unjustifiable). But i don't think this is a massive assumption, certainly no bigger than the masses of people ASSUMING that Rooneys sole motivation was to seek more money.
I assure you i don't want to see us throwing millions at big-name players for the sake of it. But in my opinion there have been some potential signings starting us in the face in recent years who we've failed bring to the club. This for me is down to not having the money to do it, and i think Fergies ' No value ' lingo is a smoke-screen.
I accept that we cannot win the league every year. Nor do i expect us to. But i do expect us to use our pulling power to the best of our ability and at the moment the club is slowly losing it's pulling power and fear-factor. (again, just my opinion). We're not in Liverpool's position yet, no, but that doesn't mean we should all be sitting back hoping everything's okay until we find ourselves in a similar one.
But how fecking spoiled are people (Rooney included) that not being the very top team in the country undebateably for little over 7 months is such a horrible thing we have to start throwing our toys out of the pram ...It's fecking childish, and spoiled. Get a grip.
I'd rather we didn't spend loads of money just to please the impatient knee-jerks and spend some time actually developing some young players...There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. If they aren't good enough, so be it, we'll try and find some more, and then splash when a good deal comes along...you know what? I can actually cope with us not winning the League for a season.
You can't live in dual worlds where you blame the Glazers for getting us into debt and then demand they start spending money. That doesn't make any sense!!
IF Rooney's statement was truthful, then he's just a spastic and an ungrateful, disloyal mug who after one season of not dominating Europe and the World decides he's packing off whilst the Torres'/Gerrard's and Fabregas' look on enviously at him and his trophy hall.
I don't expect us to win the treble every year but when the money's their to invest and we don't, it starts to become a concern.
I blame the Glazers for most of our current problems. As a club we create enough revenue and have enough pulling power to be constantly competing for honours yet we find ourselves paying more than ever for tickets, paying a ludicrous ACS, arguing amongst ourselves as supporters, battling to keep hold of our best players and (personally) feeling more and more distant from the club i've grown up supporting. If the Glazers were helping us is any way i wouldn't dare have any complaints about their ownership but the fact is we could do it a lot better on our own or we could find someone who would give us a much fairer deal.
I disagree with you about the statement. He was mad to release his intentions to the press, but i stand by my argument that he was justified in his worries for the clubs future. I like to feel that he, like me, is worried about the Glazers lack of investment and therefore worried about the continued quality of our squad. Which he was entitled to do.
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