Did you honestly think 4 weeks ago that our Board would so clueless and lacking in self-respect as to ask a rival manager for advice on appointing a manager? Nothing this board does now would surprise me.And I'm not suggesting we told him exactly what our budget was, but if there's no truth in it, why did he say it? If he's so cosy with our board as to be asked for advice, why didn't he just say nothing about it?Maybe it's because we told him what our search criteria were and one of them was 'managing on a tight budget'.You're argument seems to be: The Board are clueless enough to ask a rival manager who to appoint but not clueless enough to tell him he'll be on a tight budget.
Quote from: mazrimsbruv on June 23, 2011, 04:57:16 PMDid you honestly think 4 weeks ago that our Board would so clueless and lacking in self-respect as to ask a rival manager for advice on appointing a manager? Nothing this board does now would surprise me.And I'm not suggesting we told him exactly what our budget was, but if there's no truth in it, why did he say it? If he's so cosy with our board as to be asked for advice, why didn't he just say nothing about it?Maybe it's because we told him what our search criteria were and one of them was 'managing on a tight budget'.You're argument seems to be: The Board are clueless enough to ask a rival manager who to appoint but not clueless enough to tell him he'll be on a tight budget.Personally, I'm glad they asked advice given the lack of football knowledge on the board.My argument is that they would have known Fergie was set to go after Ash, so giving ANY indication of our budget would tip our hand. It's of course possible that this deal was sealed ages ago and we spoke to him afterwards about the manager, but like everythign else that's just speculation, as is the simple idea that he's assuming what our plans are. It's equally possible that when he said what he did, he was coming from the angle of us trying to competing with the likes of Man City and them with a lower budget, which could still be in the £20-£30m range.And as I said, I'd class the Bent signing as being more indicative of our intent than a comment by the manager of another club.So I'm still in the 'wait and see camp'!
Well Man City have apparantly sold naming rights to Eastlands for £100mil to Eithad Airlines so looks like they have found a way to keep spending.