- Jun 13, 2008
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If you want to get your argument out there across the football world and initiate change then I'd at least get some sort of solid factual argument in place where your opponent cannot wriggle off the hook.
I see far too many fans still bring it back to not spending money. Like it or not, in the last 3-4 years - of all clubs worldwide - we're 7th in total spend, and 3rd in net spend. The wage bill is a comparative weakness still but has as a % grown quicker than our rivals, and doubled, in the last 5 years. We pay managers a fortune, probably one of the biggest payers of them all. We have spent money, and a lot of it, and it's not really a correct narrative anymore (if it was in the past). And it's why you'll see pushback from the club as we have done in the last couple of years about spending, and why I assume we're getting quotes now where some at the club think they haven't done much, if anything, wrong.
If you're determined to skewer them, do it qualitatively and on stuff where there is merit. How this money is spent, club vision and operations (tbf, for once this week I saw the Supporters Trust at least attempt to put some fairly probing questions to the club on this), lack of trophies, etc..... Don't just boil it down to lazy, factually dubious, tropes.
I see far too many fans still bring it back to not spending money. Like it or not, in the last 3-4 years - of all clubs worldwide - we're 7th in total spend, and 3rd in net spend. The wage bill is a comparative weakness still but has as a % grown quicker than our rivals, and doubled, in the last 5 years. We pay managers a fortune, probably one of the biggest payers of them all. We have spent money, and a lot of it, and it's not really a correct narrative anymore (if it was in the past). And it's why you'll see pushback from the club as we have done in the last couple of years about spending, and why I assume we're getting quotes now where some at the club think they haven't done much, if anything, wrong.
If you're determined to skewer them, do it qualitatively and on stuff where there is merit. How this money is spent, club vision and operations (tbf, for once this week I saw the Supporters Trust at least attempt to put some fairly probing questions to the club on this), lack of trophies, etc..... Don't just boil it down to lazy, factually dubious, tropes.