Devil's advocate here, if signing Ashley Cole increased our chances of success why wouldn't you want him? After all we all want to win things right?
Do we really need yet another thing to divide the fans?
I love us winning but that's at too much of a cost and besides, he's 33. With a new manager coming in we are unlikely to get an instant impact so by the time we look like we might contend he'll be 34 or, most likely, older. We need to build for the future not just stick a bandage of a compound fracture and hope for the best.