My problem has always been,money or no,that we TRY,TRY to win the FA CUP ,the League Cup and the EF Cup if we are not up to winning the PL and CL(?). I went spare when I first heard that those competitions weren't anything to worry about! We just want to be able to enter the CL for the money. I want to see our team lift the FA and League Cups once again if the management do not!
Actually Dele was following close behind-maybe he should have given the call. But really what Sissoko should have done is simply continue running with the ball straight into the goal. When he is going like a tank like he was , there is no stopping him.
Some players can't score if they were standing on the goal line with an empty net.Sissoko is obviously one of them.
I think it is a lot easier to go to Levy and say ‘these players I inherited are ****, we need to sell them for whatever we can get’ than ‘these players I recommended we should sign are ****’. Also judging by what Levy said to the supporters’ Trust there was genuine surprise that we couldn’t shift them.
I still think you’re missing the point. We are not allowed to spend money on players unless it comes from revenue. We are allowed to spend money on training facilities and the stadium without breaching FFP. The extra revenue from the stadium can immediately be spent on players. What ENIC have done is the only way of investing in the team.
I read some of the THST stuff the other week, saw Levy said that transfers were “tricky” and that the transfer budget wasn’t affected by the stadium. Begs the question though with regards to outgoings to make space in the squad for improvements - was there no interest full stop in our deadwood or was there no interest in the prices we were asking for?
That match reminded me of another between us at Wembley in the League Cup Final when we were 1-0 ahead and with 5 minutes to go Archibald missed a sitter and Liverpool drew level late on and won in injury time. Why do they keep doing it to us?
Well unless you are running your club where your expenses are 100% of your income (not inc the stadium as thats not part of ffp) then you could have spent money on players . You just chose not too.
and this is my point...a chairman who has ambitions will inevitably have to dip into his own pockets. He's purchased a football club not Tesco Express. People love the fact that Levy/ENIC are as tight as a ducks arse but football isn't a business like any other with so many sources of income from external sources. We don't have to make a penny to spend a penny. We pay nothing like the rest do on transfers or wages...so where the **** does our money go, has Levy been saving up for the last 10 years for the stadium?
Didn't stop clubs with ambitious owners of finding ways to work their way around it. You don't make Billions(ENIC) without having a corrupt edge in your personality Another excuse for not spending
I think the answer mate is that a business is exactly how Lewis and Levy view things. The way they conduct affairs has that written all over it. They’re here to make money, which they’ve done successfully so far. If we miss out on CL football because of their refusal to invest in the squad, however, that would be a shortsighted mistake. And a costly one. No doubt on my mind that they’ll sell as soon as the ‘right’ bid comes along.
You have been told umpteen times that the window for the above has closed (at least 4 years ago) . Are you hell-bent on continuing to whine about something long gone and no longer possible ?? "He's purchased a football club not Tesco Express." Tesco Express is a sub-division of one of the biggest PLCs in the UK, not a "corner shop" .
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he has been saving for 10 years. Go on wiki and read up the background to the Emirates opening. From 1999 they were already in a financial mess largely the result of naive lack of foresight when relied-on govt grants and loans never materialised. And yes, granted that there is exponentially more money sloshing around in the game 20 years later, but the cost of building stadiums has increased too, we don't have the trophy cabinet they had, the global superstar players, the global fanbase. And we also don't have any of the problems they had years before the Emirates even opened. It is also easy to confuse the true ambitions of certain owners. I suspect that Abramovich's primary ambition behind pumping money into Chelsea was to get it out of Moscow before he went the way of most other oligarchs. Ironically his spending has decreased significantly since he realised that for tax purposes it would be better to remember that he can apply for Israeli citizenship and start funnelling his assets there instead. As for the Mansours, their goal was probably to get their feet in the door of a major Western economy in order to open it for further investment from back home.
Not at any price as the most interest anyone showed in Janssen and GKN was a loan move, but don't let the facts get in the way of your Narrative
