Quote Originally Posted by toptoon View Post
Do you remember when we were looking for a new manager after Bruce went? The board were accused of desperation and then when Emery turned us down; panic.

Just look how that turned out?
Precisely Topincha!

"CLUB IN MELT DOWN"
"THEY'RE NOT FOOTBALL PEOPLE, THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE"

We sign Eddie Howe and qualify for the Champions League with half of the Cabbage patch still in squad. People soon forgot about Emery until he rocked up at Villa and had a great season. Emery now faces his 2nd season syndrome and competing in Europe for the first time without Douglas Luis. We'll have to see how they get on.

There will of course be options on the table for every decision, the board as made excellent moves so far.

Peter Silverstone from Arsenal. A man who spearheaded their commercial team. They employ, I think it's around 100 people to manage commercial partnerships. We've got less than 20. It's a massive job to build the club up to the level required to match the established wealthy clubs.

Darren Eales from Atlanta, a man who literally build a club from the ground up, stadium, kit, everything. Exactly what we needed as we essentially started again from scratch post Fatso. Who saw Eales coming in? No one. No one every heard of the guy.

The business of football is so important these days. Getting that up to the standards required patience and serious consideration. It's not an exercise of throwing Shyt at the wall.

I just don't buy all the nonsense that we were £60million over PSR. NO WAY.

Rumours abound, more likely is to be the other number that was doing the rounds of about £25million.

The deals done for Anderson & Minteh were done because the club have a plan where they need to spend BIG this summer.

The board know what we need to really kick on and be a definite competitor for the top 4, I don't doubt we'll be signing the right players/top target in each position to compliment Isak et al.