I think it brings home how far the likes of City and Chelsea are from us with the signings they have made, we sign your Charlie Adams and Hendersons and Chelsea sign Mata's and that young kid from Anderlecht for over 20 million, thats not including City with Aguero nearly 40 million and now Nasri for about 25 million, we simply will never be able to compete with that. I know there are fans on here thinking the future is brighter and it probably is up to a point, but forget about real success of League and Champions leagues with the bar set that high, we need to be realistic and look at Carling Cups and F.A.Cups for our aims and asperations.
i don't think that's quite right
under rafa wee never looked like winning the epl - we only challenged for it once - but we were still one of the big clubs of europe because of our continued success in the champions league
i agree that catching the manc clubs - and possibly chelsea - might be asking a bit too much, but i see no reason why we shouldn't push for that 4th spot and get back into the cl