Quote Originally Posted by budesonide View Post
1). You don't think so.
And, no-one said we should do that year in year out. Which is why I used Man U as an example -- splashing out on the odd occasion for the top player you need instead of spending that on 2 nobodies and 3 obscure teenagers.

2). So raising ticket prices means we cannot afford to spend where necessary to augment or strengthen the squad?

3). There is something known as manageable debt. Any big company or business in the world uses it! Otherwise no company can survive on the market with borrowing wisely to compete or survive.

What we are doing means, eventually we will get left behind completely; And when we decide to eventually go with the flow it might be too late!

No one is saying we should borrow a 100 BILLION to splash out -- that is not the argument here.

Your argument that we are so poor is utter tosh too with all due respect.

4). The so-called self-sustainable model we are adhering to is short-sighted and impractical as we are finding out. Hence why there is indication form the club this season that we might spend a lot more this season thatn we have been doing.
You seem to contradict yourself in your own post inadvertently agreeing with me in the same post.

Our stadium means we're already running a considerable managible debt... Yep, that big 60k seater? We're still paying for it, we can't pay it off early and it pretty much underpins a lot of how we behave.

The argument is that any manager would have had to behave in the way we did... That 50mill in the kitty, the one you hear all the papers quoting, the one we're about to spend? That's mostly the result of player sales, no big clubs break even over the last several years, let alone have a net transfer surplus.

And no, we can't/won't generate funds out of thin air, this season, next season, with AW or without him, yes, the "so-called self-sustainable model we are adhering to is short-sighted and impractical as we are finding out." - but we're not changing the model to spend a relatively modest amount in the transfer window - this is all funds we've generated organically, not more debt, not magic pockets from rich owners.

To change this, we need a different ownership model.