If the club learnt to communicate with it's "customers" a little better then some of the Bale money could have been held back for another day without a shitstorm. I felt at the time the money was being spent for spending sakes and I said it to more than one person.
It's just so upsetting that we try to build a football team with one hand tied behind our backs while the other hand is clutching 80m in profit
And herein the problem lies.
Some people think we could have held onto some of the money received for Bale. Others think we're restricting ourselves by not spending every ounce of profit and more of Joe Lewis' billions.
Levy will never get it right, we all want different things. We can say it's right or wrong but he will never get everything correct - he'll make mistakes and he'll make good decisions. We won't all agree (as above shows) but the teams fortunes have vastly improved under Levy, that is a fact.
I remember finishing 12th - 14th every season. It was difficult. We're now one of the best 6 clubs in the country and we probably have more people unhappy now than back then. Why? Because everyone thinks it's just THAT easy to keep pushing on until we're the best in the country - then the world.
You do realise that EVERYONE wants to be better? Everyone has issues and unhappy fans, they all have their own problems and they all have dreams of being - a PL team/mid table club/top half club/top 8/top 6/top 4/champions. It simply isn't possible for everyone to be better, we've been pretty static for a number of years now, but look at the fall of so many other clubs in that time. Not many have maintained status as high as us the past 5 years.
We have a wonderful training ground, a state of the art stadium on the way, and a squad littered with our own academy boys that are capable of maintaining a top 6 finish. We've never been a club littered with world class players, I don't understand where that expectation comes from.
Happy clapper/deluded/foolish - call me what you will. We're a fantastic club, playing regular European football. We have Kane, Mason, Bentaleb, Pritchard, Rose - lads that care about our club.
Fuckin right I'm delighted.