18-03-2023, 08:01 AM
(17-03-2023, 03:24 PM)Lawrence Wrote:Your last point is an excellent one.(17-03-2023, 09:28 AM)firqdays Wrote: Sorry to say this but some of the posts on here are from the realms of football fantasist -if not outright Naivety.
The club is being managed responsibly and with long term goals.
Sorry for some we can't spin back to the Premiership instantaneously.
However, if you want to join the glory hunters brigade you could always join the Surrey throng and trek up bi-weekly to Old Trafford !
Take a look at any team that has achieved anything from the onset of the premier league and ask whether any of those clubs were "managed responsibly".
Whilst I'm not advocating brankrupting the club with lavish spending, the idea you can get anywhere in professional football and still make a profit is a bit laughable. In Cullens' latest spiel, he tells how the average wage bill is 125% of turnover (somewhere around that figure) but doesn't actually say whether he believes it is possible to break even and get promoted or it can only be one. Does he think the extra drinks kiosks will make that all important difference?
Nobody buys a football club to make money. That's why so many of them are dickheads. It's usually to show they've either a) got a huge cock, b) they have some money they need laundering c) there's a spot of sports-washing that needs to be done or d) they've identified the potential for asset stripping. Overall, welcoming the new investment as I do, I don't think what they've invested over the last seven years is too excessive. They've protected the fixed assets of the club which they bought for next to nothing.
Hopefully, they will demonstrate some ambition to progress on the field and it's nice that at last we actually have a player over than Curtis which is the subject of a transfer rumour. Seems like ages since we had a player decent enough to attract the attention of a higher league club.
Anyway, I'm rambling.
I, personally, couldn’t give a monkey’s toss about the premier league and I’m only half interested in the Championship. It’s just a financial quagmire for so many clubs and I have no wish for Pompey to become embroiled in any of that again. Of course, that is balanced with the natural desire for Pompey to achieve the highest league position possible.
I am quite content with building slowly and sustainably, anything else is folly.
We’re very lucky to have owners who are quite happy to continually pump money into the club and that investment clearly exceeds anything they could hope to recoup if they sold. Their ambition is clear and I’m enjoying the ride.
As to this season, I’ve loved some of it and been bored to tears with too many other bits. I cross my fingers for a grandstand finish, with exciting games, but we’re not good enough to go up. A few additions and some good prospects developing, should see us in better shape for next season.
Pompey life is good, generally.