Kopite-Jud » Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:22 pm wrote:To be honest we are always going to go for these types of players.
We have won nothing noteworthy (Except League Cup)for almost 9 years and currently lie 6th in the Premier League. We have no Champions League football and we cannot compensate for this with big wages.
It is what it is.
What "ready made world class" player would come to us ?
None IMO.
We need to wake up and realise what we are,
NOT what we once were.
According to those Deloitte figures though we are the 8th richest club in the world and that's without us being CL regulars, if we were CL regulars like all the clubs above us in that list we'd be right up there with the United's and Real Madrid's.
How many clubs could fill the Melbourne cricket ground like we did a couple of seasons ago? Not f**king many, certainly not the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal, PSG, City, AC Milan etc.
How many clubs could play a friendly against Celtic in Dublin and have 2/3 of the ground? When ever we play in a European final it's the same.
A club of this stature shouldn't be scrambling round for free signings like Milner and Ings, okay we haven't got petro dollar owners so no one expects us to put bids in for Messi and Ronaldo but ffs surely there is some middle ground.
We should be signing players like Kovacic, Yarmalenko, Vietto etc not the mid table fodder we are signing and being linked with
There's no way a club of our stature should be scrambling around for Bosman's and cheap deals