That's what I think myself, we seem to only look at things when we have no other options, for managers and players. That's one of the reasons why we signed has beens as managers and why we seemingly never have multiple options when it comes to strengthen a particular position. We are the kings of being late to the party.
Well seems i am just talking out my arse then. Still, i have read quite a few places that the fans are very unhappy with the Glazers
Nope, but I can't find any good new data. Barca and Real have more 100%. PSG and City have more, but might use smart accounting to get around the fair play rules.
Is that a Dumb and Dumber reference?
Yeah
We will make the same mistake again. Said last month that I wouldn't be surprised if we sack Ole a week after Pochettino has signed elsewhere. We are that kind of club.
It's crazy that our club is driven forward by our CEO's kneejerks.
This is where he will finally get the chop. Once he’s not working his magic on the club revenue.
Yeah but we spent the most if you don't count incoming fees so net spend is irrelevant. Apparently.
I, like the others on here, mostly agree with you as well. Obviously the issue isn't spending, we're constantly in the top when it comes to spending, the issue is where it's spent as you say. I struggle to blame managers for recruiting, as ideally this isn't even their job. Their job should be to come in, oversee and improve what's at the club. Regardless of who's in the hotseat the club should have a plan, an identity and a style of play and it's becoming very apparent the club have none of those things in place, and that is on the management team above the manager. The problem we are currently in is because Woodward and other seniors in the management team have no idea what they are doing and have blindly backed whoever is in the dugout without any vision or plan for how to proceed after a manager moves on which has left us in a situation where we've had 3 managers with vastly different styles and requirements of the playing staff. If you look at other teams, like Liverpool and City they have a plan, a system in place to recruit certain players to fit their way of playing, while we're seemingly waving around in the dark just trying to grab a hold of whoever is willing to play for the club, regardless of their strength and/or weaknesses.
I believe we are making the same point. There is a serious lack of long term planning and footballing intelligence at the club after gill and saf left.
I agree that we spend money hand over fist and enormous change is needed, but after the news about Rashford and the fact we were already threadbare it is excruciatingly obvious we need quality players but numbers as well. We cannot be moving into this second half of the season relying on Martial and Greenwood for goals, hardly any options in attack or in midfield while also not being certain about when Pogba / McTominay / Rashford amongst others are even going to be available. We need to get to the end of the season before being able to think about the longer term future.
They are unhappy like at least a good third of NFL fans the rest are mainly ambivalent. Too many NFL followers have no clue about the game or the league, they are more busy either bragging or knee-jerking. And in the case of Tampa it's also important to remember that they haven't actually been bad in the last 10 years, they are slightly below average but in arguably the best division in the 2010s which saw them often closely lose in division games. And the silver lining, they are the best franchise in Florida.
He loves this club. There is no question about it. But he is disliked( as pundit) because he is hypocrite. He is calling for Ed's head in which he is right but all this months he didn't say anything against Ole. For same things he was attacking Jose last few years( again he was right then).
Still we can't pay them more than City does. Aguero surely must have higher wages than Rashford by a lot. If not what the hell are we doing?
I can agree with some of that but Rashford has got more natural talent than Jamie Vardy. You could've singled out pretty much any other player in the squad than him though, to be fair.
All about perspective, for the Glazers he's doing an excellent job. They have directly and indirectly pocketed around a billion pounds from the club, not too bad eh?
feck me, this is ridiculous!
Thing is, they could have pocketed a lot more if our recruitment/ squad management/ managerial appointments had been better..... Also if we we're more succesful we'd also generate more money.
They have been there a lot longer than Woodward has, how much has he made them since 2013? I guarantee it's not as much as he could have made them.
And they didn't pocket around a billion pounds, directly or indirectly.
Woodward has been around since 2004 but Gill was shit at his job too. The difference was SAF, our transfer dealings were terrible at the time and they were great with Kenyon too.
Rashford shouldn’t be on those wages though. He’s on more than the Liverpool front three for starters and the same goes for Martial. They probably eclipse De Bruyne too.
