Every team aiming for those spots has been building for many years, (your Tottenham's and Everton's) success just doesnt come that quick. Man city have splashed more cash than we will and it took them a while to actually bond and become a good team. 2 years is just not enough time for new high quality players to come in and gel. If they all came tomorrow then i think we could. But hay its just me being a bit more grounded, i really hope we do push on
Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that they are amortized over the length of the contract, and that figure counted against turnover (in the losses test) and against wages (in the soft-cap restriction on increased spending). We don't have anything to worry about on the loss side, at least for some time...we'll need to see this year's figures on the latter as well, but I suspect that we're in decent stead there as well, particularly as there is a built-in loophole for going about the limits through the dedication of commercial revenue that I don't understand in the slightest.
Of course I do exactly as I am told at home. Don't all men? With the regards to the future I have never been so excited as a Saints fan. I remember after we won the FA Cup seeing the model for the proposed new stadium to be built on the site of the old electricity works where ToysRUs is now located. At the time Lawrie McMenemy was really talking the club up and exciting the fans but we had a Chairman and board who could not match his vision. Today we have a Chairman and a manager who are both men of vision and what we need now is for all of our fans to realise that this is for real and not just a dream.
Spurs are a pretty good yardstick about how you can make progress in a fairly short space of time. Although it was a false position Redknapp came in when they were in the bottom three and took them to the CL in a couple of years. This was when the traditional big 4 of UTD, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea started to lose their stranglehold on the CL. Can we do something similar? I am not so sure, City obviously are now in there and Liverpool are trying to rebuild. Arsenal are apparently going to spend big this summer, so could start pushing the two Manchester Clubs. The top 4 has really increased to the top 6 all with ambitions of a CL place as a minimum now so the question is can we break into that rather than CL places. The top 6 clubs will continue to improve at the same time we are. Real progress over the next couple of seasons would be to finish top of the rest and try to hang on to the coat tails of those above.
