Its a catch 22 situation for me, i am going to compare the toon here. We beat them in the playoffs, Sir John Hall came in and revelutionised their club, before that they were getting 25,000 crowds or there abouts, after with some quality signings, and lets be hosest here, some really good football, they got the crowd in, and a lot of nuetrals started supporting them from all over the globe. It has went tits up recently, but fans fell in love with the club again, and once you do, its hard to fall out. We have had mediocrity for 40 years, OK we both havnt won anything, but i dont think no one can argue that Newcastle have had the best of the last 20 (apart from 1 blip). Getting those fans back is going to be hard work, we need consistency, its no good beating Chelsea at SB when they are having a tough time anyway (they went 8 games without a win in that period, but taking nothing away from the lads, it was still a magnificent performance) and then get beat off Wolves/Stoke and get a hammering off Man City. Short "could" realistically put in 50 million this transfer window, and we will be ok, if we dont buy many the next 2 years anyway. get rid of the 4 players, if they are on £40,000 a week, then thats £8,320,000 million a year savings thats £24.960,00 over the next 3 years, and any transfer fees you may get for them (personally i would do a Barton with them stick them on frees), and if we make 20 million profit a year we will be fine. With the rules as well, i read an owner can make a donation to the club and it wont count, not a loan, even if its interest free, so he could donate 200 million and it wont count if he wanted to. but if we make a 20 million profit over the next 3 years, we will be fine and dandy. You can even spend as much as you want, and win the league, but you wont get into Europe the year after, but if you are playing nice football and buying quality players, the fans will come and get behind you, and if you make a team to win the league 1 year, surely without adding much to it, you can get top 4 at least the next 2 seasons, and get into CL the seson after anyway. and cant believe i used my 1000`th post to write that ****e, been holding onto it for about a week thinking of a good thread, didnt work though lol Edit, huh!!! 992 i was on 999 last week, what happened lol
One of the funniest things I've ever read. You are in the top 4 spenders in the country in the last 5 years.
I'm pleased I managed to make you smile in these sad times, this thread may be just a rung or two above your pay scale.
Die hard season ticket holders will always turn up to pay and watch the lads. However as has been said many a time, until recently we have been a yoyo side and with very poor points returns. We have not had a cup run for god knows how many years, we lost against rivals badly last season, and we keep selling our best strikers..who the young uns' identify with. Until we, as with the first half of last season, start to regularly play winning stylish football we will not attract new young crowds. To play winning stylish football requires players in first then the crowds will come. 40,000 from our catchment area for our club with its history is not bad. Get a great forward in and the crowds will increase, have a good cup run and the crowds will increase, play Barca at home and we will have a full house..it needs investment into players first for this to happen.
Well done Syd, great article and some food for thought. Well worth the time spent to write it and I enjoyed you views. 5 star from me fella, away from all that transfer speculation and something worth while reading.
And Rene descarte was a drunken fart I drink therefore I am. We can be Stoke or we can be Spurs. Spend the money or be Stoke. That was me, not a philosopher, Kant. x
There's nothing Nieche couldn't teach yer bout the turning of the wrist..... Socrates himself was permanently p****d. Am here all week if you want Python lessons!!!!!!!!! x
I agree in principal with this Syd but with one huge caveat. We have been within touching distance of breaking a lifetime of losing mentality, on a couple of occasion under the regimes of Cowie (Durban in the 80âs), Murray (Reid in the 90âs) and now Ellis Short (Bruce in the 10âs). On the previous 2 occasions, we just didnât have either the ambition or the money (Cowies had it but wouldnât spend it; Murray had enough for himself but not enough to make us bigger as a club as well) but there can be no doubt that Ellis DOES have it. The original post asks though why he should and the answer is he doesnât have to at all of course. Itâs his club and he can do what he wants. However, Americans donât do 2nd best very well and ES came to this party with his eyes wide open. He wanted top 10. He got it (just). He wants European football (as he told the SAFC Supporters Liaison Group 2 years ago when they met prior to the 2009/10 season) and to get that, he knows money will be required. We were a 15 point a season club 6 years ago and not even a biblical style miracle could get us to Europe without money. We are again within touching distance of making the step up to the top table IMO. It takes 10 years or so to go the full cycle for us and we are 1 or maybe only 2 more signings and wow factor ones not steady eddies, which would transform us from just ordinary mid table players, to top 6 challengers. A top quality forward like say Defoe, or that similar high profile sort for say 12m to 15m and someone like Adam Johnson (even on loan for a year) to provide us with pace and skill from the wings, would blow our yo-yo image completely out of the water. I know he doesnât have to but I would put money on a clever, successful Yank with ambition to realise the benefits to be had this season from good investment. SB has delivered 9 players for less than 22m outlay and they are very, very good ones too but the cherry on the cake is required to make the whole thing stand out. We all want that one or two iconic signings that will catapult us into a new and exciting future. I hope and pray we are about to bring in 2 such players but if we donât, itâs only a matter of time until ES does deliver the goods IMO. As I said, Yanks donât like losing and Texans even less so.
I think you know me and my style well by now cest, my posts are to start debate and even I dont agree with everything I write.
Syd. Youre a man after my own heart but can the world take two such Devils Advocates on this forum though?
Agree mate don't think it will be massive. That why I posted my ... Sod it I'm going for it Trezuguet thread. 33 a bit old but 12 in 30 games in a relegated la liga side no disgrace in my eyes, no sure if he took pens like. We aren't the only ones impressed by reputations, a name like that might help attract others. Depends what he would want in wages of course
