I like our team - I think it could have won trophies, I think the manager and the chairman are working together to better the team to win trophies. I trust that they are going for the best players they can and still invest in infrastructure that will allow us to increase revenue and match others spending and wages in the long term (its wage spend that's the real metric not transfer spend).
If you look at this thread most are saying they want Ndombele, most are happy to discuss pros and cons of a player - some are just shouting at the moon to get the deal done whatever the cost over and over and causing the conversation to go on a tangent.
The stewardship of the club has been good, I am confident that their aims are in line with mine and they are doing all they can to grow and win trophies.
Do you think this team has been good enough to win things in the past 3 years - I do.
Because they know that's what our manager wants.
Clearly the manager and chairman seem at odds if you go by our recent transfer activity and what Poch says in the media about us having to change our approach and start a new project, he even refers to the fact that we haven't signed a player in 18 months.
But let's say for arguments sake, that they do have the same vision going forwards and they are working together in perfect harmony and have been this entire time.
let's say that ENIC and Levy are determined to win this club a trophy and their goals are in line with the supporters and they are doing that playing the long game (even if the "doing it the right way" long game is incredibly unrealistic in a day and age when someone could buy a club like Aston Villa and turn them into a modern Man City overnight.)
But let's just say, like I said, for arguments sake, everything you are saying is true and realistic, let me ask you this question then, you say we have been good enough to win trophies over the last 3 years and yet, here we are, without a trophy, my question to you is, who is to blame?
The manager? If this squad has been good enough, as you say, then surely he should get fired should he not? I mean, he's been at the club for over half a decade now and if you think this team has been good enough to win a trophy then who is to blame?
OR could it be, that this team HASN'T been good enough to win a trophy and that we are on the cusp of doing that but have fallen just short every single time because our chairman has not invested in the squad and strengthend it so we have fallen short and our manager is working this team to its maximum level of potential (or beyond imo) as things currently stand?
Which one do you think is more likely to be true?
I mean, I am still seeing some of our supporters saying we have a better team than Liverpool, a club that has now got to a CL final twice in a row and finished 20+ points ahead of us in the league, what level of delusion is that? That's our competition for a trophy btw, both them and Man City, so tell me, how are we going to make up that gap playing the long game when they can just continue to spend money?
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