A Lack Of Ambition?

[cannonade]

Selling RvP to the mancs was the single worst move AFC has ever made. We went from a top club to a bottom feeder that day. No top club would sell their best player, and one of the world's best, in a position of desperate need to their hated rival, and in so doing hand them another title.

Who cares that he wanted to leave. Address the problems of why he was unhappy, fix them, pay him and compete for a trophy. Instead, we act like fools, and demonstrate to the entire footballing world what a shell of a great club we have become.

Totally unforgivable.

 

[MDGoonah41]

it was last summer when wenger said we couldnt be considered a big club if we sold our best players, then he sold cesc and nasri a few weeks later, right?

 

[clockwork orange]

Fully agree there's a lack of ambition at management level. This culture has also brushed off on the team. Very hard to keep every single employee/player as ambitious and confident as they should be when those in charge aren't. It's also hard for the players less affected to shine when others around them are affected.

 

[jones]

Well, don't think anyone would doubt that there's a lack of ambition at the club and its board/management. Thing is, it is often brushed aside as a necessary sacrifice for the future, like the players we have to sell regularly to make ends meet when the rent is due.

The real problem is exactly that - what is this future we're looking forward too, and saving all our money for? If anybody at the club is seriously waiting for FFP to kick in and save us, they'll be in for a bad surprise, but even still they talk about 2014 as if by that point anything will have changed for the better. I can understand that we're indeed financially hampered at the moment, but I still think we're just more or less being successively prepared for the role we'll have to play in the future, and that is battling 4th out with Sp**s, Everton and whoever else comes up. There's no way in hell we're going to compete for the league title even with FFP anytime soon, and this definitely won't change with the current board and owner.