devaney » Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:37 am wrote:Yakka - I'm not an apologist as you suggest. I just prefer to give FSG and Ayres some credit rather than castigate them at the first opportunity. I have not read one sensible suggestion on here or anywhere else as to how we can improve our performance in the transfer market. Insulting and berating the very people that have actually got us into the most exciting position we have been in for years is not my style. I'm not a spoilt brat. Like yourself I have had the pleasure of seeing our fantastic club go through the best of times. I have also suffered the frustration of the disgusting H & G era. Every time something goes wrong the crass insults and accusations start doing the rounds. Idiots suggesting that FSG should get the fk out of our club always amuses me. Most of these clowns have virtually zero businessm acumen and yet at the first sign of trouble they bring out the gallows !! The very same people were calling for BR's head when results were not going his way during his first season. The same people wanted Suarez sold because of his behaviour. The same people are now the first out their seats every time Suarez scores.
Virtually nobody, at the beginning of the season, expected us to be in the position we are now so I'm sorry but I'm just going to enjoy the rapid improvement they we have made. If that makes me a "happy clappy" then so be it. If I defend Ayres and the owners it is because the criticism aimed in their direction is totally over the top. Football has it's frustrations. If supporters can't handle that then they shouldn't take an interest. Just look at what the United supporters have enjoyed, in terms of success, for over twenty years and suddenly according to a lot of their glory hunting supporters everybody associated with the club is a complete waste of space.
I'll tell you how to improve our performance in the transfer market - buy some players.
The club has to accept that even £20m isn't a lot of money these days, especially in an era where the likes of Bale and Ronaldo sign for Madrid for £80m+, Zlatan goes to inter for £60m, Cavani goes to PSG for £55m and Falcao goes to Monaco for a similar amount. FSG are mentally scarred by the money they spent on Carroll but that is chump change these days to the top sides. Spending big money is just how big clubs roll these days.
faffing around for 2 months arguing over a £11m fee and then coming away empty handed is actually embaressing for a club of our stature.
Then we get to why is Ayre doing everything? If Ayre would have flown out to the Ukraine on January the 1st instead to the 29th then maybe we'd have someone more able to change a game than Martin Kelly and Joe Allen. Why is he doing deals with multiple sponsors in the middle of the transfer window anyway? Shouldn't he be concentrating on signing players that time of the year? This is a football team after all not a f##king walking advertising hoarding.
Then we get to ambition, with the multiple managerial changes at our rivals and the incredibly poor form of United we will never get a better opportunity of finishing 4th, if ever there was a time to speculate to accumulate it's now.
Next season United will probably change manager and spend big, Arsenal will sign Draxler and no doubt City and Chelsea will be spending money like drunken sailors too, how are we going to break into the CL next season without Suarez if we don't get in this year? I cannot believe that given this once in a decade opportunity to grasp the nettle our owners chose to sit on their hands and do nothing.
Next week we play arsenal at home, if we lose that game given the other fixtures there's a good chance we will be 6th, that's how much of a thread our top 4 hopes hang by, even with the 3rd best player in the world (in the form of his life) in our side.
Mark my words in 5 years time when we are swanning around mid table we will look back on January 2014 as the big opportunity lost, because In the long term you are not going to beat teams who spend £40m on one player by baulking at paying £11m for a 21 year old highly rated prospect with his entire career ahead of him.
Keep on clapping Dev lad.