Owzat wrote:Madmax wrote:Yeah thats what i think aswel.. Yankies have spent the money for their own pleasure via escort services. This season will either go as a good one or really bad one!
Last time Rafa reached 80+ points he finished the next season limply with just 68 points and held off the goners only on GD.
It's easy to blame Parry, the owners, the ref etc, but he showed again his tactical limitations on Sunday. No sub until too late to make a difference, going with Babel over Benayoun and the bench was rather wishy washy. And he has had money to spend, £37.5m on two players even if a £7m debt was written off in the Johnson robbery.
Last three big signings have been Keane (flop), Johnson (overpriced) and Aquilani (overpriced injury merchant). Maybe someone blocking those signings would have been a good thing, but I'm sure it's much easier to blame the owners for Rafa's poor trading in the transfer market. I'd rather the £30m had been spent on a quality LWF, and maybe taken a gamble on Owen to bolster our bench.
If you don't have enough cash to throw it about, spend without a care, then you spend wisely. Has Rafa? I'd be very surprised if ANY right-back proved worth £17.5m let alone Johnson. I hope Aquilani gets fit and turns us into title contenders, I'm not overly optimistic given his injury history.
What will happen next season? We may end up selling Mascherano, Agger and Aquilani while signing Turner of Hull and Jenas of spudz for silly money. I'm sure the owners aren't digging deep and funding Rafa's extravagance, probably don't know enough to comment on his activity either, but I doubt I'm the only one who is worried by our signings for the second year running. Last season it was Dossena and Keane the flops, Riera the ok signing and this season the outgoers are better than the incoming (Arbeloa & Alonso >>>>> Johnson & Aquilani)
In fact HTF is it the owners fault that they gave Rafa £35m last summer that he wasted on Keane, Dross and Riera* and this season he gets £37.5m which he's spent on Johnson** and Aquilani?
*Riera not necessarily a bad signing, but not a great signing either
**£7m may have been a debt written off, but it's £7m that was owed us and stays in their bank not our's.