I love and hate these posts in equal measure.
Caveat:-
Usually just an avid reader of your guys knowledge on here so forgive the sudden wall of text. Just dread "Silly season" as it always seems to pass us by in recent years.
I Love these threads, because its always nice to hope, and is always fun to do your FM teams via message board.
I Hate them, because every year there's this roundabout of everyone going on about the very same 10 cliche "flavours of the month" and subsequent positions that we need to fill that will be the saviours..... some times theyre from realistic stats, some times from FM..... BUT THEN..... they never EVER arise (Sneijder, Gondogan, Vidal, Muller et al from recent years chat).
Then when the transfer(s) dont happen and you have 12 months of hindsight, you find that the players in question went nowhere or "Fell off the cliff" (Andrea Boletti anyone?).
I would love for us to have a great transfer summer, but in reality:-
1) The club is a mess and attracting anyone good to us, without paying them MEGA wages (which we need to move away from), is not likely. we're not the draw we once were.
2) Woodward is about as clueless as, a netball supporting ewok with leprosy, as far as football goes. Soooooo disconnected from the footballing side of the club. We will end up with his stupid grinning face next to balding Bale with a United Scarf and redonculous wages, blindly believing that's "what the fans wanted".
3) The Glazers also totally disconnected from the fans. Ground is old and knackered, under developed for years. A defence who played together against Basel in 2011 that was shit then, and hasn't improved..... AND..... has since been given new contracts.
As per all of these threads.....We RIGHTLY need a HUGE overhaul. But as far as I can tell listening to Ole, he says we "DONT need an overhaul", which means to me hes under the exact same constraints as Mourinho last summer, but sadly Ole sounds more like the "Yes" man they want (upset as I am about that).
In short, forget 98% of the FM names mentioned on CAF, and the 6 out 5 in dreams. We will be signing 2 (probably underwhelming) players, 2 days before the window closes. And shipping out probably less than 50% of what we need to.
Woodward and the Glazers need to go.
The purchase power that we SHOULD have, WITHOUT the PIK interest, WITHOUT a sugar daddy, and thus WITHOUT the FFP issues that comes with the sugar daddies etc should put our team head and shoulders above the likes of Citeh, and Madrid and Barcelona. The position we are in is SHOCKING and it comes from the top.
Woodward couldn't sign his own arse-hole if he could reach it with both hands. I sincerely hope im VERY wrong (and I very much look forward to every single one of you berating me in August saying "BWA HA HA HA HA you knob, how wrong were YOU???) but we wont attract ANY of the names on these threads, and will be lucky to stay in 6th next season whilst the poisoned leprachauns and their usless chronies bleed us and our ground drier and drier.
Have seen this "warchest" chat too many times the last few years.
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