Agreed, it's totally normal for a manager to literally have to say in public "hopefully the owner can keep his word" as a part of normal conversation. nowt to worry about.
Does it really matter much how he delivers it? Surely if you feel you have to say the words "Hopefully <person> can KEEP HIS WORD" it's never a good thing.
I'm not surprised, just disappointed.
Not in the club, mind, but in myself for ever entertaining the idea maybe they weren't complete and utter fuckups.
Just wondering why you ignore a very long period of non-spending and focus on two unique events to inflate this average?
Charnley blew his load on McClaren, and chased bad money with good trying to save his boy. And then we were forced to spend to get back at first time of asking. edit: not to mention recouped a lot of that with the fleecing of spurs for Sissoko etc.
The opposite in fact. Rafa sees there as being three types of teams in the division:
1. Very rich clubs who can spend.
2. Other clubs who will spend.
3. Us, who aren't spending.
sharpening the torches and lighting the pitchforks as we speak.
The image of Nasri grimacing on crutches and wearing some kind of emo blacksmith leather smock and a baseball cap is the funniest image that ever existed.
I wonder if it's not our wage structure that's actually daft as shite (yes I know the above article is about Sevilla struggling to meet demands) as it would explain the kinds and types of deals we've been linked with so far. Money to spend just not on wages.
yeah let's waste precious minutes of our lives sorting turds
is it not enough to just say "and the rest" once you get past a certain quality of player and not really care where they objectively rank on the shit pile?
edit: whatever floats your boat, obviously.