Transfer News, Rumours and Bollocks Thread

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Good sum up which is difficult to disagree with. . . .however as much as our so called glory days of earlier are over so are the time of one club domination.

I think football is very much entering a state of 'beat the Joneses', the top clubs will go head to head to out do each other when it comes to splashing the cash, and they will get around any rules football bodies lay down.
It will be quite interesting to see what happens to UTD when SAF finally decides to call it a day.

I do believe that we can drag ourselves to an on par level but it will take time and maybe a change in the way we do things, hopefully the others wont be a million miles out of reach by then. . . .

[LDG]

People tend to get carried away with the gap in quality between sides.

There is this worry that the gap will get bigger and bigger....but that just isn't the case. There are too many good footballers out there to let that happen, because not every good player can play for one of a handful of moneybags clubs.

We may fall short of those who have it all, but generally speaking footballers want to play....and there are only so many players a club can buy.

If City want to be the very best, they'll have to discard some of the players they have on their books, because of the squad size rulings.

All we need to do as a club is show that we have some balls. We do need to invest in the playing staff, and that will in turn attract names, but we need to get back to basics first, and the signs are good just recently.

If we can nick a CL spot again this season, it'll put us right back up there....assuming of course Mr Wenger wants to spend some dosh.

[IBK]

Misery.

Not for me. As a fan you follow your club and take what you can, and like you I am enjoying seeing us trying to bounce back after a disastrous 6/7 months. But I have forced myself to accept the reality of where we are and to lower my expectations accordingly.

Re attendances and signings - I am afraid that the board have failed to recognise reality. Because there is no way they are going to get away with charging the most in the country for seats, when in terms of star quality and playing ability we have drifted so far behind the best teams.

[Niall_Quinn]

Because there is no way they are going to get away with charging the most in the country for seats, when in terms of star quality and playing ability we have drifted so far behind the best teams.

They sort of are getting away with it at the moment though. Who knows what their plans are? Maybe another few months of screwing the fans will be enough to get them whatever it is they have on the agenda. Then it's up to Stan to make a run of it, though I'm sure his plans are already carefully constructed. Same thing can be said about the team.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Defo Stan is a man with a plan. . . .

Can see him dumping us, cashing in and then we will be left with. . . .(our very own Gulag superintendent )

[Niall_Quinn]

Defo Stan is a man with a plan. . . .

Can see him dumping us, cashing in and then we will be left with. . . .(our very own Gulag superintendent )

That's where I think it's going. Al Capone has offered well above the going rate, so Stan is sitting on a goldmine he can cash in whenever he wants. Plus there would probably be other interested (and unsavoury) parties. This is still a big club a few quid short of pushing into the big time.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Unsavoury characters huh?

Can see it now players being used as drug mules on the Trans Siberian as our pre season tour shifts to other clims

[Niall_Quinn]

Unsavoury characters huh?

Can see it now players being used as drug mules on the Trans Siberian as our pre season tour shifts to other clims

That's if the idiot drunk doesn't get banged up for crashing his car.

[Master Splinter]

That's if the idiot drunk doesn't get banged up for crashing his car.

Merse is back?

[Japan Shaking All Over]

nah, hes talking about Steve Burtenshaw. . .