http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27387616 Comedy, at least Southampton had substance when they made their ambition clear
The 'top-5 finish' thing is rather ridiculous. They'll need more than £60mil per year to achieve that!
Invested properly, £60m per year could get them into the Europa league (which is what I assume he means by "top 5", because otherwise it's a fairly pointless position being one outside the top four...) Everton certainly invest a lot less than that. The real problem is what they do with the wage bill - is that £60m included or is that just pure player purchases? Meaningless rhetoric if you ask me. Put this guy in the same category as Tony Fernandes and Vincent Tan.
I'm joking, but I do find the trumpet blowing of these foreign owners particularly irritating. If you're going to spend money and try to dance with the big boys, do it quietly and shout about it when you've managed to achieve it, if you have to shout at all. Very un-english.
TBH I quite like the attitude it's better than just saying we're planning on 17th or above every year, it maybe nuts and unrealistic but that's kind of what targets are for. Good luck to them I say
It's setting yourself up for a fall though. Now everyone want them to fail whereas before I was fairly pleased for them.
They will need somewhere North of £200 Million to break into the Top 6 and with FFP they will have no chance of spending that sort of money any way!
I'm with you. I'd rather have that than this 'oh we're only little ol norwich, the best we can hope for is come 17th after playing for 38 tedious 0-0 draws'.
The thing that annoys me when this happens is then that everyone knows what they will spend, so a 2m player suddenly gets touted at 10m just because they are willing to throw money.
They can have Bassong and RvW for a cut-price bargain of £25m That's better value than Man U offered for the Baines-Fellaini combo Get in while stocks last
