paulfromsutton

Anyone else pissed off OPR are getting M'via for just 7 million and we arent even having a sniff? That is so cheap for him 3 times that price a year ago...

Are you on drugs we have some good players yea but not many Holman, Delph and Herd are pap! Nzog and players like Ireland are very good players........ when they want to be and thats not often. We need players to be certain of staying up if we get none then its a HUGE risk no way will we be 3 points clear of relegation when the wigan game comes

I don't like Dunne to slow etc However He will do the power of good for our defence coming back telling people what positions to be in and being a leader.

Completely agree with you

I wasnt talking about the management of playing staff but the business it's self as for the future policy stuff we certainly arent doing it with the youth setup and the transfer policy is unknown to everyone. it would be nice if they said we wont buy anyone over 26 in the summer.

For me we need to buy a centre back, centre mid, AND a left and right winger. As for who they could I will only pick English based players as not everyone knows every player from every league in the world! I can't name you a right winger because well I'm not a scout and one doesnt come to mind however I'd take Lescott, Huddlestone and bring Downing back and heres why. Firstly we wont need to play 5 at the back bringing Lescott in and having Vlaar, Clark and Dunne allows us to have some good centre backs, Huddlestone is slow but he can also play at centre back, he can pass very well, has a good tackle and will be good in the air for corners at both ends of the ground. Downing hasnt become a bad player all of a sudden bring him back to familiar suroundings, give him a bit of love and play him every game and I believe he will be the player he was after his first half season with us (the year he was injured until christmas) This frees us to play N'zog in the middle to if we like or behind the strikers it also allows us to play Benteke AND Bent upfront our strikers are excellent at the club right now and they are both good in the air and will score plenty of goals in a 442 with wing play. Again also it allows us to play gabby off the shoulder of a defender he isnt going to score goals if he isnt playing in this position and that is why he isnt scoring. Most will probably disagree with me but with these players I believe not only would we survive but relitively we would thrive I would go as far as saying if Lerner said you cant spend money in the summer I would agree to it as we wouldnt do badly the next year and Lambert could continue with his youth policy and only bringing in young players to the club with sell on values and again good prices

Sell up to someone who knows how to run a sports team or at the very least stop **** around, put a whole team of industry professionals to run the club, put some cash in now to secure the league status and then create a long term vision of building from Youth and put more cash into that to bring more talented 18yr old or less players into the club

Well I can see a good amount of back of a fag packet maths here... £63m the club was purchased for, 14m for the training ground, 5 for the Holte modifications..... 82m in total without the players and yea there may be a few million for for sodding around with other stuff call it 85. Now lets move on to managers and players. Firstly Randy has picked managers very badly anyone could have pointed out Houlier & Big Eck were TERRIBLE choices! How much money did they waste? How much did it cost to remove them AND their backroom staff? When it comes to MON yea he wasted money on certain players however he cut the cash off and then gave it to the next manager in Houlier. Hmmm dumb! The real **** up was wages and contract lengths who gives Given a 5 year deal at his age with his shoulder problems? Dumb Who signs off the contracts? Faulkner! Who employed him? Lerner! However you come back to it lerner is the cause. As for the fabled massive amount of money put into signing players? 84 mIllion NET spend over 7 years and only 5.9m in the last 3 years. Thats 12 million a year since Ellis hardly a bank breaker in this day and age. Which makes a grand total of........ 179m. Now not being funny thats how much the bigger clubs in the league are sold for. So he hasnt pissed away his investment on the club and players at all so far. This does not however include wages or costs of sacking managers and I dont think it should either its his own damn fault! Think of it like this buy the equivilent of Bent when we signed Heskey and we could have been in the Champions League. I'm not a happy camper and I wont buy in to the bollocks that is the Lerner lover fest hes a saint whos had his lunch money stolen he could sell up if we dont go down and either lose nothing or very very little

Another day gone and no signings. It's ok though not like we are threatened with relegation, shipping goals for fun etc....... Oh wait. Half way through the window and no signings played a few games in January already and if there was any sort of planning we could have had players in and more chance of gaining some draws/wins Its just crap

Yes of course but you could also say that is due to the loss of the Champions League revenue. Ask yourself this If we had the same owners as Liverpool and were in the same situation would our solution be the same as it currently appears

I's also say that hes been here what 7 years now? He could have got excellent scouts like Henke years and years ago and started getting the best 15/16/17 yr olds way back then if he wanted a team produced by the academy

None of the clubs I mentioned are slashing wage bills and are spending something we arent doing

Obviously a lot depends on who we bring in if anyone, who stays fit and what effect Vlaar & Dunne have now they are both back this month

Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool (Now), Sunderland, QPR, Arsenal & Newcastle all of there owners have put a lot of money into the clubs except Arsenal and no one knows truely why Wenger doesnt spend there so I have included them on the list. The exceptions are Liverpool's first owners, Blackburn, Pompy, & Man Utd for obvious reasons

When you look at the new owners that have generally come to the league they are good owners pumping money in and changing the business models this is what we need in the medium term, in the short term it's simple more players of a higher quality that can change games and keep us tighter at the back

Not lost on me I would go further than just on the playing field he should have also sorted more corperate hospitality than he has and much earlier, rebuilt the north stand using the exsisting planning permission and allowed school children in for free up to a certain level for seating that wont sell out 10000 seats empty against southampton. The club would have known this at least 2 weeks ago 5000 plus seats would be empty so why not give them away to the school kids get them hooked get them buying food/programs makes no sence just to see them empty

He has 6 billion USD in total apparently but thats not what I wanted to comment on. You say it's not Randy's fault he lost that money well he sets the budgets, signs the checks, either he or Faulkner negociates the contracts either way they are his fault to as he employed Faulkner. He employed those scouts and manager. So how is it not his fault.

20 million on eight players of which Bennett and Bowrey are odd signings the rest have been reletively good. More money is needed it is as simply as that and the issue is compounded by the fact of the huge increase in TV money. The debate shouldnt be should we spend money but who should we be buying. Lerners appointment of Houlier and McClown was a joke as was there huge payoffs. Lerners denial of giving the propper funds to MON only to give them to Houlier was a joke! OPR are trying to buy M'Via our transfer news is we cant sign a player for 6 million It's all a terrible joke

8th highest in the Premiership back then.... surely we should be able to cover that without the owners input anyway then.....If not two things are apparent either Lerner doesnt know how to grow revenue correctly or we don't pay the going rate to watch a top football team so we didnt get one.