Football changed forever in 1992, whereby if you did’t spend you significantly damaged your chances of winning anything.
That’s the nuclear bomb, right there. You can dismantle it, you can try to forget about it, you can deny it’s existence, but you can’t ever make anyone forget how to make it.
Poch is back mumbling about needing loose change.
There is a lot of work to be on the level we want in the future. If your expectation is to win the league, maybe you need to sign players or have a different budget.
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Maybe?! Do me a favour.
Here’s the keys to a Ferrari. Oh, by the way pal, you may want an actual driving licence and be able to afford the insurance, taxes etc that come with one.
‘We are here now because we love to compete and we love to win. Of course if you compare us with another team we are in a different financial position or have a different strategy or plan over the last four or five years.
‘We are achieving a lot, that if you go back no one would believe. For me, a title with Tottenham is a massive dream.’
Dream is about right.
Poch knows that he could – in theory – have a scratch card win. Which is to say …a win by chance.
Football teams historically invest in stadiums and THEN see if they can wing it.
This is not a winning strategy – because nobody in their right mind would believe that a building on it’s own could win silverware.
This summer is going to tell us all we need to know about the short term future of the property developers that currently own the branding.
The shopping centre is a beautiful frame, but will someone accidentally leave a Canaletto in it, while Poch watches his brushes fall apart?
For me the frustration has come from this. Not necessarily what was done but how it was done. Bypassing most of the arguments about the stadium for a moment. We were told time & time again that the money for the new digs wouldnt affect our ability to sign players. & while your right that we cant throw around money like some of the other clubs, but we cant spend any? I’m struggling to think of any team in any sport (if you can think of one please let me know) that gets in shouting distance of winning it all then just sits on their hands. I’m not asking to blow 200mil on a messi here, but 35-45 on one solid signing that could compete for a starting spot & add depth. I dont think that’s asking too much. To see so much money go to a stadium while watching our team slowly get thinner & thinner do to injuries. & not bringing in anybody! That’s the frustrating part for me. We’ve coped amazingly well this year with no stadium & no recruitment ( hell, with alittle luck today we could be going to a cl semi). But with 1, dare I say 2 solid signings over the summer, maybe we’re not out of title race by now. But anyways, hope we stuff city today.
And Moura-less..
City:
Ederson, Walker, Kompany (C), Laporte, Mendy, Gundogan, Silva, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero
?
?Del boy starts!
Except city didn’t buy one aged player did they? They bought a well balanced squad of quality from top to bottom. Fuck off back over the road to the revisionist happy clappy circle jerkers
Nonce-sense. You conveniently sidestep the most glaringly viable alternative, namely how about doing a Liverpool? And not knocking down the ground all the fans love but spending a modest amount to improve and expand it whilst placing the investment where it primarily belongs, on the pitch and reap the benefits of exciting players winning stuff, happy fans and gor blimey guvnor would you look at that, the revenue’s only gawn and gone up in every bleedin sector as well. Fucktard.
You’ve identified the rub right there cab, they can’t even do the basics properly like sorting tobes contract and ok if we’re gonna buy lower market players at least identify them and act early to give us/manager the best chance but we get Sissy, last knockings and it’s only taken an aeon for him to come good. The whole Grealish thing was a total clusterfuck. It’s truly amazing we’ve done as well as we have
the nuclear bomb cannot be fully dismantled…
Like Juve 1-2 Ajax
Interesting that you mention the 1992 as a game changer….correct me if I am wrong but isn’t this around the time we nearly went bust and had to sell Lineker, Nayim, Stewart and a certain Mr Gascoinge. We finished 8th that year behind Villa, Norwich, Blackburn, QPR
Sheffield Wednesday as well as Liverpool & champions Man Utd. Don’t worry I am not going to warn against doing a Leeds (or Villa, Blackburn, QPR for that matter) but I think the progress is evident and the strategy in that we have been trying to close the gap in terms of infrastructure and revenue generated which to me seems logical. A few more trophies in that period would not have gone amiss (!) and yes we could have spent that stadium money on competing with the Russian and Middle East Oil money backed teams on transfers and wages but not sustainable. Whilst I get all the frustration I haven’t seen too many alternate options presented that don’t involve spending other peoples money.
About spot on Paul ,ive given up on getting anyone of real quality but what really gets on my wick is losing the likes of Alderwield ,just pay him the money.
They haven’t won it yet but point taken.
Dream? Dream on.
Half the battle in recruitment in any field that is competitive, never mind elite sports, is to have a fucking strategy and to execute said strategy tout suite mon brave. But no doubt we will be last out of the traps again, cobbling some bollocks together towards the end of the season to paper over the cracks.
Tonight is a great example of spend big, win big.
These quotes from Poch follow on from several made recently in a similar vein.Is this him finally coming out and making a point to Levy.It’s a critical transfer market coming up if we are to kick on instead of flogging the same threadbare squad to death.
OGS is in a similar situation at Utd.and there will be a positive response from them.Are we going to look on in envy as our esteemed chairman juggles with his pennies looking for the ultimate last minute deals?This has all the makings of not ending well.
The jobs at Madrid and Manchester are filled for now,but don’t think Poch is without his suitors elsewhere.