We Need To Break Our Transfer Record...
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nightgoat
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How about Andy Booth on loan?
mpickard2087
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We all laugh, but a couple of experienced heads providing a bit of leadership and consistent performances is exactly what we could do with right now.
dontcallme
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If we pay him £200k a week in wages it won't be a cheap deal.
Bobbins
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I really just wish we'd spent a lot of the Bale money (£50m or so) on the stadium project.
The fans would've been up in arms with burning torches etc but in reality it would've done a lot more to improve the overall health of the club in the long term. Ultimately that summer was a huge waste of money.
I agree with the OP though - there's really no point in us buying £25m players (we've never bought anyone for £30m). They'll either work out and end up being with us for two years before sodding off, or they'll bomb like Lamela and Soldado. The Eriksen's of this world are exactly what we should be after, which fits in with the Berbatov and Modric signings.
Ultimately though, none of this will ever make any difference, because the big difference between the Premier League and every other league in the world (where I would expect us to finish in the top 4 every season without fail) is that there are FIVE huge clubs with insane revenues, two of which have been injected with football-roids for years, ahead of us, almost all of whom will be next to impossible to ever surpass for any length of time (with the possible exception of Liverpool). Even when one of them fails (Chelsea, 6th) for a year they simply jizz £250m on players the next summer (don't mention FFP - Chelsea selling Luiz for £50m to another Megacorp club? Which just happens to be the exact revenue boost they needed in order to pass FFP this year? Yes because that deal wasn't completely dodgy), so any progress we make will be temporary.
Football in England (and much of Europe) is completely and utterly broken, as a sport, as a competition, as a competitive concept, and it will never be fixed. The cartel are unstoppable and unbeatable, to the point where they now make their own rules and the rules all lesser clubs have to abide by, rules which reinforce this permanent financial dominance in what is effectively a club-based caste system, and one day fans will accept it and realise we actually play in a different league to them, along with the other 14 clubs in the Premiership and hundreds of clubs throughout the world.
We are, and will be for the forseeable future, simply player development vehicles designed to filter out the elite level players and prepare them for moves to the cartel members and their European cousins for their future monetisation. As such, any player purchases which are at the monetary level of what would be considered elite are a waste, as the player will not stay if successful, and the club runs the risk of wasting the money on a player who fails.
The sooner we make contact with aliens and the City's and Chelsea's of this world can fuck off to the Intergalactic Champion's League and off this planet, the better. Then we can work on getting as many Zargons as possible into our academy.
The fans would've been up in arms with burning torches etc but in reality it would've done a lot more to improve the overall health of the club in the long term. Ultimately that summer was a huge waste of money.
I agree with the OP though - there's really no point in us buying £25m players (we've never bought anyone for £30m). They'll either work out and end up being with us for two years before sodding off, or they'll bomb like Lamela and Soldado. The Eriksen's of this world are exactly what we should be after, which fits in with the Berbatov and Modric signings.
Ultimately though, none of this will ever make any difference, because the big difference between the Premier League and every other league in the world (where I would expect us to finish in the top 4 every season without fail) is that there are FIVE huge clubs with insane revenues, two of which have been injected with football-roids for years, ahead of us, almost all of whom will be next to impossible to ever surpass for any length of time (with the possible exception of Liverpool). Even when one of them fails (Chelsea, 6th) for a year they simply jizz £250m on players the next summer (don't mention FFP - Chelsea selling Luiz for £50m to another Megacorp club? Which just happens to be the exact revenue boost they needed in order to pass FFP this year? Yes because that deal wasn't completely dodgy), so any progress we make will be temporary.
Football in England (and much of Europe) is completely and utterly broken, as a sport, as a competition, as a competitive concept, and it will never be fixed. The cartel are unstoppable and unbeatable, to the point where they now make their own rules and the rules all lesser clubs have to abide by, rules which reinforce this permanent financial dominance in what is effectively a club-based caste system, and one day fans will accept it and realise we actually play in a different league to them, along with the other 14 clubs in the Premiership and hundreds of clubs throughout the world.
We are, and will be for the forseeable future, simply player development vehicles designed to filter out the elite level players and prepare them for moves to the cartel members and their European cousins for their future monetisation. As such, any player purchases which are at the monetary level of what would be considered elite are a waste, as the player will not stay if successful, and the club runs the risk of wasting the money on a player who fails.
The sooner we make contact with aliens and the City's and Chelsea's of this world can fuck off to the Intergalactic Champion's League and off this planet, the better. Then we can work on getting as many Zargons as possible into our academy.
