- Aug 25, 2010
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Well last summer we got Sandro, Gallas and VDV, all of which were excellent deals and are great players.
It's a really difficult situation because we don't have the money or stadium to sustain a squad with players on ridiculous wages. We want to sign a really top name player but also many clubs have been looking for strikers including some of the biggest spending clubs in the world (Man City, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Juventus, At. Madrid, PSG, Getafe...). The biggest name players are going to ask for big sums of money and we have to wait until they have signed who they are signing and then see who is left.
There are still some really top strikers available who may be more inclined to move to us now that those other clubs are completely filled out with strikers. We are probably best trying to sign a lesser name but who is very talented and take a risk but at least have someone in who offers something more as a lone striker than our current crop do and once he is in place we can then take the gamble of trying to sign a really top striker.
I'm not sure anyone is to blame on us not being able to sign a big name, it's just not that easy.
Yes this is all true.
It wont sound anymore comforting come the the 1st of September if we havn't managed to improve the squad, particularly in the forward area.
However it will probably turn out to be a cold hard fact of reality and I'm lowering my expectations (not that they were that high) because I can smell dissappointment in the air.