Summer transfer joy and happiness

[SMatthews]

Is being champions and the "butt of all jokes" the only two options?
How many clubs have been more successful than us in that time?
Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, City, I guess you'd have to add Leicester . Who else? Spurs haven't won a thing to our 3 FA Cups so not them.

We're not where we need to be and with our owner I'm not convinced we'll get there but some of you lot need to have a word with yourselves. We are far better placed to succeed than most clubs.

Are you going to call someone a cunt again?

[Letters]

That was funny last time.
Maccy removed it though
(Rightly so, to be fair.)

[Marc Overmars]

Is being champions and the "butt of all jokes" the only two options?
How many clubs have been more successful than us in that time?
Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, City, I guess you'd have to add Leicester . Who else? Spurs haven't won a thing to our 3 FA Cups so not them.

We're not where we need to be and with our owner I'm not convinced we'll get there but some of you lot need to have a word with yourselves. We are far better placed to succeed than most clubs.

“Most clubs” are not our measuring stick.

The top 6 clubs are the only ones we need to be looking at.

[Letters]

“Most clubs” are not our measuring stick.

The top 6 clubs are the only ones we need to be looking at.

If that's true, and I guess it is, then you know who to thank for that. We were never a consistently top 4/6 club back in the day. #justsayin'
But yes, that is the level we are at now and while within that group we are struggling to compete, we are fairly well placed to with the right ownership.
The stadium move had to be done, it wasn't quite the silver bullet we were all hoping but we did it just as the billionaires started to have a big impact on the game and Fergie was still in his pomp.
Not much we could have done about any of those things but longer term it was the only option (that's a response to some of the posts over the last few pages which seem to suggest we shouldn't have done it).

[selassie]

Aulas said:



Doesn't look like he's saying he wants 72 million to me, just that he's worth more than 40 million.

Classic Aulas!

He will drag this one out and extract every single penny he can out of the Spuds.

[Mac76]

Although, he does have two years left on his contract and if he isn’t going to sign and Raul is going to stick to his word, then he could well be a gonna.

Yes it's Raul's 'sell or resign with two years left' rule that makes any Auba rumours credible (though not necessarily true)

And it's 'goner' btw

[Bumble]

I don’t suppose there’s any way we can justify fining him exactly £350k a week until he leaves?

we probably could justify it but probably not legally.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

I don’t suppose there’s any way we can justify fining him exactly £350k a week until he leaves?

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

How much would that putrid club need to offer for us to sell Auba? Far too much should be the answer.

Even if we got 150 mill for him, I'm not sure wqe would sufficiently reinvest it.

Aubameyang, Wan-Bissaka and a top manager would probably turn them into title challengers!

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

And could we not have hijacked, Godin or hummels.... heck the both of those deals! Then Just go youth ahead of the backline.