Whistlin' Dixie
Player Valuation: £50m
...I'd swerve all the talk of off field 'game changers' and 'new dawns'. I'll treat it as bollocks until I'm proven wrong: the best policy to adopt with this club and its various owners' tall stories.
We should bust a gut to put a trophy in the cabinet every season and prioritise that, imo.
I dont know, maybe that's old fashioned now in this era. But personally I could give a flying one about the sooper dooper soaraway Sky arse licking Premier League.
Forget the EFL (Or whatever it'll be called next week) that's a loada shabbite. Look at the irrelevant teams that have won it in the last 15-20yrs - as well as those made the final. It's an irrelevance.
The FAC'd be nice, it carries a bit more sway. But then again, unless you're there or thereabouts season on season, it's value isn't the same as it once was. Unless we did an arsenal and got to two finals on the bounce, and maintained a competitive record in it - which is unlikely at the moment - then I'm afraid a league placing's our priority.
Look what making a final's done for wigan, villa, stoke & hull.....Not a lot.
But look what a CL spec did for tottenham...Before kidnap took them to 4th, they were an irrelevance. Two league cups in 10 years or so did nowt for them.
In essence we should be going for a CL spec and pushing on from that. Trophies have a better chance of following with the rewards & assorted other benefits that follow from a CL spec.