We are all to blame for allowing this rot to go unchecked

[Reg]

I know some people are going to hate this but I can't see how we can KEEP blaming the managers.

This club started to be a laughing stock from the minute we tapped up Ramos and it seems to me that, although still being run as a financially viable business, we are completely falling apart because of the way Levy is running things always for maximum monetary gain.

How many times are we all going to agree which positions need strengthening before we finally say "hang on, we've known this for 3/4 seasons and we've gone through x number of managers-someone else must be to blame".

Levy has become a liability and there are probably others on the board who are the same. THEY NEED TO GO and be replaced by people who know about football.

And we still keep going to matches and filling the ground.
LETS VOTE WITH OUR FEET AS SOME ON HERE HAVE SAID and embarass Levy and all those who have made us a laughing stock.:shrug:

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Never gonna happen, nice try though.

And I'm still of the opinion that whoever allowed the Keane and Berbatov deals to go through before we'd signed convincing replacements should shoulder a lot of the dagger staring, but also the person who either didn't recognise the need for a defensive midfielder, didn't manage to secure a deal for one, or got Modric confused with a man whose build was that of something more substantial than a cranefly.

It's an obvious place to start looking, i know, but maybe, just maybe, we can find out who's cocking up our recruitment department. Might be DC, but i'm not in possession of enough of the facts concerning the transfer window to make a fair call on where he actually fits in to all that.

 

[heythisisjay]

its BLOODY DC. i hate him. i want to hurt him

 

[Rocksuperstar]

its BLOODY DC. i hate him. i want to hurt him

Don't be so quick to point the finger there - i've come to realise, through various conversations, that when it comes to transfers, he can only do so much. Now, while i admit he may well be the one to blame for not recognising the need for a DM, what can we say if the man on the ground in Russia tells him the Arshavin deal is done, all but the signature, giving DC the green light to go ahead with the Berbatov deal (for example) then, while waiting for the club to formally agree Arshavin's transfer, they get wind of our sudden substantial increase in spending money and go all shy on the deal holding out for more cash - is that DC's fault, or the guy who got presumptuous? I definately get the impression that many people think transfers are far simpler than they really are and involve a lot less people. Maybe 10 years ago but now, especially when the club has so much to get done in the transfer windows, unless DC is omnipresent, i would say it was more likely he'd be here at home, overseeing the final stages of the Berbatov deal, rather than out in the Russian wastelands, waving folding at Arshavin. We have many people involved at all levels, it might not be as simple as it first seems, is what i'm getting at

 

[Reg]

Never gonna happen, nice try though.

And I'm still of the opinion that whoever allowed the Keane and Berbatov deals to go through before we'd signed convincing replacements should shoulder a lot of the dagger staring, but also the person who either didn't recognise the need for a defensive midfielder, didn't manage to secure a deal for one, or got Modric confused with a man whose build was that of something more substantial than a cranefly.

It's an obvious place to start looking, i know, but maybe, just maybe, we can find out who's cocking up our recruitment department. Might be DC, but i'm not in possession of enough of the facts concerning the transfer window to make a fair call on where he actually fits in to all that.

You are right in my opinion, someone is cocking up our recruitment. Surely between them all they should have enough sense to buy players who will complement each other and not just look good as a list of names. If it really is a decision made by 3/4 people maybe they should all go!

Unfortunately no amount of sacking is going to help us now.
You know... I bet Roy Keane would get them playing and grinding out a few results (and I'm not suggesting him for manager-what on earth would anyone want to manage us for, especially if we sack another one).

 

[nipponyid]

This club started to be a laughing stock from the minute we tapped up Ramos

We became a LS, when Keith Berkinshaw said "there used to be a football club over there"

 

[DFF]

The rot amongst the fanbase, yeah.

Not my fault, guv. I played Lemmings, sure. Don't mean i'm qualified to handle a lemming emergency or nout.