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  1. Two excellent players who will fit into our system perfectly. It's either that or a Galactico policy. Pretend that they're foreign and you've only heard about them on the transfer hype grapevine.
  2. I don't think he'd be sacked either, but if he's trying to plan for the summer and we're still in this limbo by May, he could be tempted to fuck it off and move elsewhere, and who could blame him, especially if communications between him and Parry have broken down.
  3. Gerrard will have been in his ear. Not sure we need him, but he'd be a good replacement for Xabi.
  4. Well I agree with that. Parry is useless, but he's always tried to keep a balance between tradition and not selling out completely, just done it very badly.
  5. Which has nothing to do with their commercial superiority. Ferguson built a succesful team, which allowed them to dominate and expand their stadium and brand, etc. All at a time when big money was being pumped into the game, which they took advantage of. Right time right place, as they say. It had nothing to do with any long term marketing vision, just good managment. Whatever, I'm not saying we don't need to improve in that regard, but that on field success should always be focus and the spring board for any jump in commercial success.
  6. The marketing was shite after 2005, but we still made a lot more money, which proves that commercial and on field success go hand in hand. And is a one-off CL win really enough to put us back among the commercial elite? Especially when the team regresses domestically? So we don't really need DIC and rich owners, we just need experts in marketing and commerical branding to take over? Who is to say that's not Hicks? Yes, we can improve that side of things, and sell more mugs in Asia, etc, but if that becomes the focus and not the team, then it's just a slippery slope down.
  7. Because they have a succesful team. You can only sell so many shirts on the back of a third or fouth place finish. It's a fickle sport.
  8. We are actually, at least on par. Just way behind on matchday revenue, which is down to the stadium, or lack of, and poor management. That doesn't mean we have to whore ourselves completetly, which is what some are implying. Man Utds commercial success was built on the back of their dominance of the league, not some uber marketing vision.
  9. I'd rather the commerical side was built on the back of on field success, as it should be. Once you start marketing everything thing in sight you just lose your identity, which is what I hoped some new owners would give us back, and we end up paying through the nose for it. Not to mention attracting the wrong type of fans. And who is to say Hicks couldn't expand us commercially just as well as DIC? Keep the focus on a successful team and club and the marleting will take care of itself.
  10. Hobbs is on loan and Pennant is injured. It's certainly not a meaningless game. It only takes a loss and an Everton win at home next week to put the pressure back on. We need a result. A win would certainly gurantee fourth.
  11. It's in his neck. Scapegoatanje Finnan Carra Sami Arbeloa Benayoun Plessis Lucas Riise Voronin Crouch
  12. The money or dividend returns isn't an issue for me. I just want them to run the club properly, succesfully, and with a bit of class. Yes, it will help if they can give the manager some decent funds, but that's not the be all and end all.
  13. I agree with this part, but anything else about 'prestige' or how they'll run the club is just all opnion at the moment, and very optimistic at that. They're not experienced football club owners for a start and will encounter the same pitfalls as everyone else, even with their vast wealth, especially if they start pissing off the various splinter groups and the transfer budget freaks, which is not that hard to be fair. Not trying to be a damp squib, but it's important we don't get carried away. Once bitten and all that.
  14. None of them have ever been to Manchester.
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