stmichael wrote:In all fairness Paul I'd rather consolidate than overspend. Ok I'm gutted to miss out on Owen but at the end of the day the asking price was too high. We are in debt if you consider the signings made by GH and subsequently written off via free transfers and loans. There was only going to be so much time before we simply couldn't afford to do that - we were banking on future successes.
Fortunately for us we won the CL and that must have righted the boat so to speak, but we obviously still aren't quite right. £14m on Cisse and £10m on Alsono were massive signings last year, and this year we have still spent a respectible amount of money but we haven't recouped that much have we?
Maybe we all need to be a bit more realistic. Our Carlsberg deal should now have paid off and we must be soon in position to take advantage of a new kit deal - please not sh#tty reebok again!!
If Rafa can get his hands on Solano and a CB of a decent quality then that will have to do, let get behind them and the team and get into the top 4 or 3, defend our title and next year we can start splashing the cash again.
.. Nice
..the biggest signing for us was keeping Gerrard .. now calm down all and look forward.
. It is better to have a cautious chief exec that wants to secure the clubs future whilst chasing success rather than spending millions on players and thousands on bloody tropical fish 
for his office and then run the club into the ground. 
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