- Mar 7, 2005
- 9,018
- 6,900
Taraabt, Olsen, Rose, Parrot, Bostock, Bale, Gunter, Dos Santos...
All under 20, all sought after and secured for around £20m, that's just over £2.5m a man. That's not bad in my book.
I know there's a mixture of for now, almost now and for the future in there, but we have a policy and it's working (just read the Arsenal, Barca and Chelsea forums for evidence of that).
There's been lots of discussion about the management structure and the way we do our business (some of it justified, especially with the Jol debacle), but I think there can be little argument that it's starting to bear fruit. The combination of the the three: DL's business acumen and negotiating skills; DC's contacts and knowledge of European football; and JR's reputation and pulling power, when put together add up to a club going places.
We're not there yet, but we're making progress, so, and this especially to the critics of the trio, what do we think now? Have we got a good system? Is Levy the devil incarnate? Should we still serve DC his P45? Is Ramos an over-rated and expensive mistake?
(PS I deliberately didn't include the likes of Modric and Berbatov)
(PPS of course there will always be misses (Joey if your reading this :wink, but I guess that's where you find yourself when you're not in the CL, I prefer this to the KK defeatest, we'll never compete attitude; this way at least we've a chance!!!!)
All under 20, all sought after and secured for around £20m, that's just over £2.5m a man. That's not bad in my book.
I know there's a mixture of for now, almost now and for the future in there, but we have a policy and it's working (just read the Arsenal, Barca and Chelsea forums for evidence of that).
There's been lots of discussion about the management structure and the way we do our business (some of it justified, especially with the Jol debacle), but I think there can be little argument that it's starting to bear fruit. The combination of the the three: DL's business acumen and negotiating skills; DC's contacts and knowledge of European football; and JR's reputation and pulling power, when put together add up to a club going places.
We're not there yet, but we're making progress, so, and this especially to the critics of the trio, what do we think now? Have we got a good system? Is Levy the devil incarnate? Should we still serve DC his P45? Is Ramos an over-rated and expensive mistake?
(PS I deliberately didn't include the likes of Modric and Berbatov)
(PPS of course there will always be misses (Joey if your reading this :wink, but I guess that's where you find yourself when you're not in the CL, I prefer this to the KK defeatest, we'll never compete attitude; this way at least we've a chance!!!!)