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Originally Posted by utd99
Hard to sympathise when the transfers he did get - and there were a fair few - were such a colostomy bag.
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Maybe not, but the sentiment was spot on. The Glazers were behaving like they do rather than the owners of a club like ours should. No, we don't have a divine right to be winning all the time, but we should be enough of a financial powerhouse to be competitive. We should be in a situation where any bang average PE teacher
can have us competing for the PL and CL with players as good as anyone else's.
If we're in that position, you don't have to pay the punitive wages that we did to try and make up ground lost under Moyes - you couldn't imagine Fellaini signing for Real, Barca or Bayern or Wee Jimmy getting anywhere near their dugouts except to clean them. A continually improving academy and training facilities, along with a stadium that would have been completed over the railway (or build a new one at the other end of the land owned and drop the existing one for car-parking) to give 100k fans (not customers) chance to enjoy the Reds. Sure, fleece 15k corporates, but keep 85k tickets at sensible prices. Even if fans aren't involved in the ownership, at least involve them in decisions that affect them - seating positions such as relocating away fans, family section and so on. We don't need to be involved in the day-to-day running of the club, but a chance for the membership to vote on key decisions that affect them would buy a lot of goodwill.