Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
he has a point in that in terms of league position finishing we are on par for the size of the club, and that whilst we can expect to be doing better and not capitulate all the time we cannot expect to directly compete with the likes of Bayern Munich and Real Madrid without an Usmanov spunking money at the club.

What we can expect is not to fall at the last 16 of the CL every season, not to collapse in the same familiar way when we have a title challenge, and in the next 13 seasons maybe win the title once or twice.
We've finished on average 14 points behind the champions over the last 10 seasons and we're likely to hit that average again this season. Whatever the financial variance, we aren't seriously competing and we haven't been for a long time. The CL thing underlines that. It's an appalling record for a club this size.