This old chestnut getting rolled out again oh we are going to do a Leeds or a Portsmouth absolute bollocks, there is so much money knocking around these days that old adage doesn't ring true I'm stunned that some of you can't grasp that.
Levy runs the club based on how much money we have to spend. Simple. It's how any business should be run. They are not doing anything wrong. To say they are not ambitious is crazy. They have just built the best football stadium on the planet. Best training facilities. To build a club capable of sustained success, the infrastructure needs to be in place. It is now, we still have to pay for this billion pound stadium. At some point, we would have had to do all of the above. We still spent £100m+ In the summer, which is not too shabby considering. What fans like you are saying, is that we should be getting into debt of £400m or so as that is what it will cost to fund a title winning rebuild, because it would be debt. We do not have that money just lying around. Do you really want to put the clubs future at stake?
Yes, there's more money around. And guess what? Every sod wants some of it. Players wages have shot through the roof, average players (even bad players) sell for 10's of millions. That's not counting the type of quality we would need to challenge. We're not just sitting on a pile of cash wondering how we can spend it. It's relative, it's like your house price goes up and you think you have all this extra money, well everyone else's house has gone up at the same rate, so you're no better off. Unless you buy in a cheaper area or downgrade.
I think that he knows that it's not going to be a quick fix. I know that there are a section of fans that don't want Jose there but I really think that he'll get at least two seasons.
I believe our next home game will be against Liverpool and guess what?
I'm not sure anyone's quite saying that, but I do think some people are not recognising the enormous pressure the stadium build must have put the club under, financially speaking. Long term re-financing was sorted in the summer so I now expect the club to continue increasing the amount of money it spends on transfers and wages (i.e. outgoings now known and fixed + income increased = more available for use in day to day business).
You miss my point entirely.I also did not say we are not ambitious . I am not saying Levy has not done a good job with the infrastructure of the club. I am saying just as Man City or Chelsea have owners who are prepared to pay insane amounts of money for players we do not operate that way. Should Joe Lewis decide to act that way he could and it would not be to the financial detriment of the club as he can afford to do it.
This is true. As long as it's less that 2-7 I'm ok with that
I think it is highly unlikely that Levy and Lewis invest their own money into this club. They purchased it as an investment, not a money laundering vehicle that we see at City and Chelski.
You know he’d like nothing more than to dig in, let Liverpool have the ball, sit back and pinch it.
Problem is, he doesn’t have the players who could produce such a performance. This lot, being solid defensively? Means we might have to try and outscore them...
Gonna get spanked.
I’m just bored of watching a boring team. Domestically, we have been so boring to watch for 12 months, generally speaking. Fuck the lot of them off give or take a handful. Getting sick of seeing them.
