7_Kewell wrote:bavlondon wrote:It doesn't really matter who of the 2 finished 4th, the bottom line for us is we didn't and unless there is a shift in ownership we will not get back into the top 4.
you see bav, this is why the whole 'anti-rafa' argument kicks off every 5 mins here. yeah, the owners are to blame, but so's the manager.
After 6 years and 200+ million and 100 players, things should be better on and off the pitch.
No one is denying Rafa could have bought better but if we had the funds there we could go out and get someone else in for 25Mil and the flops would be forgotten. Utd and Chelsea are able to do that. It's that financial muscle that is lacking. Even our own players say we need to be competing for top players more often. I see that as a dig at the owners.