the academy is key to everything. we ran the club well for years and stayed in the top division. with a great businessman in charge we can go back to this and further.
Defintely, once the neglect it got after relegation from the PL has worn off and the current innovations have come into effect.
Is Wisescummer fit? I have very low standards (ask beddy!). Can he see 50 without the aid of a radiotelescope? Has he got his own teeth and hair. Can he still see his feet. If the answer is yes, I will ask Mr Cortese nicely to buy some new players quickly as I want to see the streak whilst I can still have some eyesight.
Interesting that the best/most successful club the OP considered he could put in the list was Everton. And I accept completely that I'm looking at the thread with almost 3 years of hindsight. I'm sure I wouldn't have selected a list any more diverse, also bearing in mind that the thread started one month before I joined the forum, so I wouldn't have had the chance.
As a number of posters have noted, we're a pessimistic bunch. We have far less ambition than the Chairman, and this poll shows it! Mind you it's great being proved wrong like this, isn't it?