The walters step over

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It'd be interesting to know how Ayre tries to sell "performance linked pay" to prospective signings. Personally, I think it'd be easy enough for an agent to say to his player "they don't believe in you - x have offered twenty grand a week more, go there instead." If we lose Henderson and Sterling because we're trying to be clever then we might as well just fecking give up.

It's happened under every owner we've ever had, I don't think we FSG can be blamed for us missing out on Charlie Nicholas, Roy Keane,Dessailly,etc,etc. It's not really that difficult, he had a choice whereby he could either go and live in London and play for a team that plays in the CL every year or go to one that has qualified once in the last 5 years and just lost their best player.

It's weird how people still can't get their heads around the fact that a player we wanted didn't want to join us, as though it's never happened before.

Their original plan was for Van Gaal to be a mentor to a younger manager. Rodgers has come out several times and said that he told FSG that he didn't want anyone above him and he wouldn't sign unless they agreed to his demands.

And if there isn't anyone around that fancies spending a few hundred million on trying to get some reflected glory then what?

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By "right owners" I take it you meen "willing to spend £200m+ over two summers"? Because that's what it seems to take if you look at Chelsea and City as examples. If there were a billionaire willing to do that and FSg are syaing "nah" then they deserve all the criticism but otherwise, what are people demanding? That they put us in debt chasing the dream? We had a chance to be taken over by DIC who had stated they would've gone big in the transfer market but (if the rumours were true) Moores was too big of a egotistical f*cking moron to take the deal and went with the two shysters who were buttering up his ego and offering a lifetime presidency. Me saying this doesn't mean I'm happy that 4th is the absolute best we can hope for or that I think the sun shines out of Henrys a*** but I am grateful that they took over because f*ck knows what would have happened had RBS had granted Hicks an extension. Administration, a player firesale and relegation were absolutely real possibilities for us so I can't get myself upset over FSg not being willing to spend two hundred million or pay the £300,000 a week wages it would take to turn us into a title winning team. There just seems to be an eagerness to be as negative as possible and when some start saying that the board have made bids that they know will fail for players just to say "look, we're trying" then it just seems to me like people are making things up to get angry about.

If he wants to go to Barca (and according to the radio interview his dad gave a few months ago, he does) then we would've ran the risk of having him not being fully focused on the games he was playing for us. Imo, that's too big a gamble to take on the most important position in the team. Then we would've had to sign a keeper next year knowing that any selling club would have us over a barrel when it comes to negotiaitions. I honestly can't see what else we could have done tbh. The fact that we haven't let other clubs know that he's for sale and sat back waiting for offers pretty much says that Reina knows where he'll be playing in 12 months time so we might as well put his wages towards a player that wants to be here.

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