UEFA CUP next season lads, believe it

[Red Chilli]

Sick of this **** its gone to ****, were playing **** and its just depressing ****

[Morph]

You know fine well I was talking about challenging for the title so the European cup is not relevant to this discussion.

Do you think we are closer to challenging for the title than we were under Houllier? I don't.

I'm sorry but isn't winning the euro cup still an improvement on anything Houllier ever did?

And we might not be much closer, but I dare say we'd be much further away if Houllier was still in charge.

Oh and like I said highest points tally ever last season, would suggest improvement no?

[kurtangle01]

Who do you have in mind kurt? I can only think of Simao.

Alves, Defoe was touted as a possible signing until Cisse, who Rafa was apparently trying to sell to raise funds for this transfer, broke his leg? They're the 2 that spring to mind and both better than the ****e we ended up with.

[REDSCOUSER]

Who do you have in mind kurt? I can only think of Simao.

Alves tore Valencia apart today, he is defo showing good form this season.

[Red Chilli]

Hmmmm Defoe or Bellamy, neither of them are pulling any trees up. I wanted Defoe but he's been shocking recently.
Forgot about Alves though

[Morph]

you forgot to mention some other BAD buys he's done and thank fcuk they have left now
no i never I said on the books
Pellegrino, Morientes, Nunez & Josemi to name a few
Pelle was free, Nunez was forced as part of the Owen deal, and we still made money back on him, Josemi was swapped for Kromkamp who we then made nearly all our cash back on - and I covered Morro before. I think you'll also find, that few pretty much covers all his 'bad' buys as there isn't anyone else
Bottom line is he has signed more bad players than he signed good ones.
has he bollocks

You get what you pay for in this world, so if you shell out 7£ m on a mediocre players like Pennant you will get 1 good match out of 10 from him, but if you sign the like of Alonso or Kuyt you will get 1 bad match out of 10.
I'm with RED CHILI on this one, we are no nearer to #19 than we were when RAFA joined us.
I am sticking to me guns here by saying we will NOT finish in the top 4 this season and WE WILL be in the uefa cup next season. Reality that's what it is.

[kurtangle01]

Hmmmm Defoe or Bellamy, neither of them are pulling any trees up. I wanted Defoe but he's been shocking recently.
Forgot about Alves though

Belive me when I say that I'm not Defoe' biggest fan but he's definitely a better player than that headless chicken Bellamy. The board also never parted with the cash for Owen, rightly or wrongly. He would've been a good signing for us and I'm sure I wasn't the only fan who was excited by his possible return.

[Morph]

Hmmmm Defoe or Bellamy, neither of them are pulling any trees up. I wanted Defoe but he's been shocking recently.
Forgot about Alves though

And their only the ones we hear about, how many other players do you think Rafa would like, that we can't go for becasue of lack of funds.

Big money teams win titles simple as that, we haven't got big money so we've got no titles - it's as simple as that really.

[Red Chilli]

Belive me when I say that I'm not Defoe' biggest fan but he's definitely a better player than that headless chicken Bellamy. The board also never parted with the cash for Owen, rightly or wrongly. He would've been a good signing for us and I'm sure I wasn't the only fan who was excited by his possible return.

I think that's another lucky escape. Imagine if we'd matched the Geordies on that. 16 million down the toilet

[kurtangle01]

I think that's another lucky escape. Imagine if we'd matched the Geordies on that. 16 million down the toilet

Yes it looks like a lucky escape now and hindsight shows that we were right in not signing him however we couldn't predict the future at the time and that alone serves another example of a player that our current board of directors wouldn't sign due to not giving the manager the required funds.

[REDSCOUSER]

Morphino, Rafa signed them players did he not ? I don't care about the circumstances
They played like crap most of the time, pissed the clubs monies away and fooked off to where they came from. I don't care if they were on 10£ or 10,000£ a week, it's still a waste

[Morph]

Morphino, Rafa signed them players did he not ? I don't care about the circumstances
They played like crap most of the time, pissed the clubs monies away and fooked off to where they came from. I don't care if they were on 10£ or 10,000£ a week, it's still a waste

that's what a limited budget gets you I suppose, we're trying to win the league here lets not forget, not just happily qualify for the Champions league, to get the 20mil, that we need as our only means for buying players, it's just like going round circles untill we get more cash.

[Red_Polo]

We will finish 3rd

[Red Chilli]

We will finish 3rd

A bold prediction

Still "first is first, second is nowhere". So 3rd must be ****e.

[kurtangle01]

that's what a limited budget gets you I suppose, we're trying to win the league here lets not forget, not just happily qualify for the Champions leage, to get the 20mil, that we need as our only means for buying players, it's just like going round circles untill we get more cash.

You're right there. Every season we seem to be 3 or 4 players short of a title winning side and that isn't happening by accident it's happening because we never seem to have the money to buy real quality that will improve the team.