Are you not forgetting that we are building a new stadium... They don't come cheap via Ikea
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Summer 2015 Transfer Window DISCUSSION Thread
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Are you not forgetting that we are building a new stadium... They don't come cheap via Ikea
White Ikea Lane, has a nice ring to it.
Your Avatar is fucking me up!
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No new rumors? nothing? 
Volland is exactly the type of signing we need - hardworking, someone who can play up front or in the 3 behind the striker, he'll provide that bit of flair we've been missing in matches, and he is still young (23 this month).
And to top it all off, he was linked with Liverpool in January.
Now if that hasn't made you lot want us to sign him, nothing will.
They can't do it forever, but can't afford another year outside the top 4 even more.
I'd love for us to ruin them by knocking them out of the top 4.
Leaves us free to sign Eric Djemba-Djemba. Bargain.
Hopefully prevent Woolwich from winning anything.
They're the biggest brand in the sport, gained a huge commercial advantage at the dawn of the Premier League when we were knee-capped by our management's mistakes.
They completely messed up Fergueson retiring and are having to buy success because you can't build it without a plan.
It's not great that they can, but no one said life was fair. We aren't them, can't be like them, and can't buy success. We have to grow our heroes, not buy them ready-made.
No one is. The Glazers skimming their % off the top is what kept them from becoming the Bayern Munich of the Premier League.
That's the thing. He doesn't actually believe that we're building the stadium, strangely enough.
We have the most frugal transfer policy in the premier league. If we were regularly finishing top 4, or even winning the odd trophy I would be proud. I would say it's working. The fact that we're doing neither of those things suggests it isn't. If we were to loosen the purse strings a little, maybe we'd have more to shout about.
Regular top 5 finishes over the last ten seasons measured against the spend of top four teams suggests things are working. The new stadium & revenue will help fund the extra spend needed to break into the top four consistently. We are not. Yet in the market to pay absolute top end salaries and may never be. Look at lolerpool, spend big on transfer and salary, hasn't exactly done them the world of good.
The owners don't want to run the club at a loss, and are building a new stadium. Despite all your claims, that building is happening, is real, and costs real money.
Until we have top 4 revenue, we won't be spending like a top 4 club. Neverminding this reality you seek to deny with such futility, you can't even suggest which £30-40m players Levy should be loosening the purse strings on. You simply grouse about dollars spent by other clubs with no reflection on whether or not it was a good idea.
The club makes the offers it feels appropriate for the players it wants. We offered €20 million for Depay in January, according to PSV. Utd paid £31m. Is he worth that? No, but it's not our fault if someone wants to spend stupid money.
We've allegedly offered £25m for Schneiderlin. Utd offered £20m. And just signed Schweinsteiger for £14m instead. We'll see if the player wants to move, but it's not like Levy is refusing to spend money. We are spending what we can afford on players we want. The magic part is what happens on the pitch afterwards. Worry about that instead.
Again, you're allowing the sale of Bale to cloud your judgement. You say loosen the purse strings, but we do spend. A fucking lot. What you're annoyed about is net spend, which is a ludicrous argument. Just because we might sell £100m worth of players, that doesn't mean we should spend £125m. Us and Liverpool have proved that doesn't work. You buy the players you need, irrespective of the amount earned from player sales.
We're the 6th highest spenders over the last 5 years. We have made more from sales than any other team. A combination of a few very pricey sales and a high player turnover (due to high manager turnover).
We now have the money to build our stadium which will no doubt mean we have a much easier transition than when Woolwich built the Emirates, allowing us to continue, if not increase our spending during and after the build.
If we thought we were still in with a chance, apparently not
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If Schniederlin goes to the Manure to not play that is just pure stupidity.
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