Don’t know how some people can question our current owners. It smacks of entitlement - sign a marquee player, invest more of your money, do more for us poor fans.
They have: saved us from bankruptcy; got us promoted; invested hundreds of millions of PL money in players; massively invested in the infrastructure and youth development and probably done more than we know. Purslow warned us that it would take a few years in the PL before we could pay top wages (we’ve had 2). The current pandemic has affected every football team’s finances and yes we sold a player for £100m, but the foundations are being put in place, exciting youth players are breaking through.
The stated aim of the owners is, from memory, competing at the top end of the PL while maintaining a sustainable financial model. That doesn’t mean spending their vast wealth on us and paying for mercenaries.
I’m ecstatic with what we’ve achieved so far, and I’ll accept a short, medium and long term strategy that will attract other serious investors (whenever that time is deemed right by the current owners).
I don’t know if we will ever achieve galactico status, dining out with the so called super clubs, attracting future Messi’s or Ronaldo’s, but most of those clubs are in a financial mess through over extending.
Being a cautious, risk averse person, I prefer our approach. We could be the next Ajax/Leicester and a group of players comes through together and surprises the oil Barrons. To become a global brand takes time, but with HRH onboard, we already have marketing gold dust. We’ll get to the promised land, but we’ll do it on our terms and once we are good and ready
Can you guess that I’m fed up with all the naysayers and doom mongers?