The farther away we move from the takeover year, the more some people forget how deeply in the shit we were. The players we need will come. It might not be the lads we all will be over the moon about, but I firmly believe that MON and Lerner are the best option when it comes to bringing this club forward and making us great again. It might not happen as fast as all of us would like, but it is obvious to me that MON isn't shit in the transfer market. No, he is in fact very, very good. He is stubborn and pursues the boys he wants for his TEAM vigorously. Friedel and Sidwell are proof of that. He has been after them for some time. MON is not a Pokemonesque gatherer of names and prestige players (you can do very well with that approach too) but a TEAM BUILDER, with the focus squarely on the types of players he wants to have in the squad. I quite firmly think this is the best way of putting together a team that can sustain itself over a period of time. We will hit bumps in the road in terms of league position, individual performances in games we should win, squad size etc, etc, but we are moving on up in the long term. I don't have blind faith in anything, but I do trust the current regime when it comes to what they tell us and also in terms of ambition. We will have Champions League football at Villa Park under MON.