From what I can see FSG have increased our sposorship revenue ten fold Stan - the money has clearly been there for players also.. it's more the strategy and the type of players we've been targeting that have held us back.
As for growing up with the great teams of years gone by Stan.. football has changed so much, both on and off the field, it's almost unrecognisable

We can't compete with the cities & chavs - Utd to an extent also... in all fairness only a handful of clubs in world football as a whole can. Excluding the rich kids, we are up there with the best of the rest..