Quote Originally Posted by Vintage Claret View Post
It certainly appear to be that our American owners are "Asset Stripping".

It may be that we could be in for another relegation dog fight, but I do hope not. I was rather hoping that we may be challenging for promotion,

Appointing Vincent Kompany as our manager made me think we were starting to show some ambition but unless these sales have been at Vincent's instigation it would appear he is already having the rug pulled from under him.
I find myself in the unusual position here of defending ALK and Mr Pace. He stated quite clearly in the last Annual Statement that, in the event of relegation, we would have to address our reduced turnover by selling players and reducing the wage bill. Which is what's happening, he's doing exactly what needs to be done, as he said he would.

There's a long list of players who have left, but we've also brought half a dozen or so replacements in haven't we ? I cannot see Vinni being particularly unhappy at this stage, I would think it's proceeding exactly as he thought it would.