As much as i and everyone hate these ridiculous owners of ours, there is no way IMO that they can shoulder much of the blame for this season.... they have not picked the team, tactic, substitutions and yes they arent giving the manager much if anything to spend but he has most certainly had money to spend in the past and he has p*ssed most of it up the wall. If my memory serves me right he paid aorund £8m for Lucas didnt he??? Im not 100% on that so please dont dive on my back if i am wrong but it was a fair bit anyway..
Its no secret he didnt want to sell Xabi in the summer and that he was left with no choice but i would have put Real's brains to the test, instead of 30million we want 30million plus robben, ok it might not sound a good deal from their point of view but if they wanted him that much they would have paid up, if they didnt maybe then Xabi would have seen he wasnt as important to them as Ronaldo or Kaka...again this is only MY opinion