I’m starting to despise when people throw around the Biggest Club in the World talk. What good that’s been for nearly a decade. We shouldn’t claim that anymore because that brand building came off the back of being giants not just off the field, with cool official tyre and noodle sponsors, but on the field success. We are a shell of the club that we used to be in that regard. These players don’t know what it takes to bear the weight of expectation or responsibility that was once deemed necessary to play for this club and therefore made this club great. We are not the biggest club in the world, not with these owners, not with these wannabe businessman thinking it’s as easy as running a team on FIFA, not with how poorly our recruitment and scouting departments have become and not with how neglected our homegrown talent have become, and certainly not with these players that have no right to being wearing that badge on their shirt (with all of them being well overpaid as well).
But we sure can be again if we take the necessary steps to clear the deadwood, not just in the dressing room but top to bottom. And I say whatever and however long it takes, do it.