A profit in 2021? The Grealish money was all spent on the three stooges.
I think it was Grealish £100m plus Engels £5m
Buendia £38m, Bailey £30m, Ings £25m
So about £12m profit, and then I think we got a bit more for Grealish when the fuckers won the league.
I’m by no means saying they’re bad owners Eamonn, and they have spent a bit this calendar year again but as others have said it’s not really been in line with the supposed ambitions. I’d sooner have a good manager and team first before we start messing with the stadium. We still haven’t finished in the PL top half since 2011.
I’ll forever be grateful for them pulling us out of the shit and regaining our PL status but you get a bit fed up of hearing how we’re aiming for the stars and then seeing shite out on the pitch every week. They really badly need to get the next manager right, if the reports about Poch are true tonight it gets my vote.
We were all grateful when Lerner saved us from Ellis, and that went sour when he stopped spending money.
I think with Lerner, we just all got excited about such a rich owner coming in at that time, we saw what Abramovich had done at Chelsea and thought we'd be getting the same treatment. We had a fair stab at it but then Man City got bought by considerably richer owners and showed him how it was done. My problem with Lerner is how long he just seemed to hang on, waiting until we'd really dropped into the shit before deciding to release us. It's pretty clear he'd given up in 2011 when he hired McLeish.
As much as i know Doug was unpopular with many, it wasn't anything like the situation we were in summer 2018, financially we were proper fucked at that point.
