by TJR » Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:13 pm
Rafa has said he will sign for another 5-10 years if the club invest in the academy, the training ground and give him proper backing in the transfer market. They're all things that desperately need to happen to secure the future of the club regardless of who the manager is.
Also the fact we have a world class manager in Rafa is incredible, we'll never attract a better manager if he was to leave and what he's asking for to stay is very reasonable.
Most of all Rafa offers hope and if he was to go so would all hope, at least in the short term. Rafa leaving would be disastrous, not just becuase we'd be losing a top manager but also and perhaps even more so becuase of the lack of investment and mismanagement of the club that would have forced him to leave.
It would be an all time low under Ashley and that takes some doing. We'd have to do something to force change. Nobody wants to do it but if Ashley/Barnes/Charnley neglect the club to the point where Rafa feels he has to leave then boycotting a game / staging a protest may be our best chance of forcing change for the better.
Look at what Lazio achieved with a mass boycott and to a lesser extent West Ham fans forced change for the better with protests last season. It can work and I suppose trying something, anything, is better than sitting around doing nothing, watching Ashley/Barnes/Charnley make the same mistakes over and over again while the club continually declines.
Hopefully it doesn't come to that, hopefully this campaign and general fan discontent at the minute forces the club into doing something. The best thing about this is it's a proactive campaign rather than the usual reactive ones, it's a threat to Ashley/Barnes/Charnley while they still have time to change track.
There is a great opportunity at the minute. We're at a bit of a crossroads, get it right and we can go on to really enjoy the next few years, grow the club and bring everyone together. Get it wrong and it'll be Ashleys biggest mistake. This campaign is a good way of making our feelings known and putting pressure on the club to get it right as is joining and supporting NUST and there activity.
Rafa has said he will sign for another 5-10 years if the club invest in the academy, the training ground and give him proper backing in the transfer market. They're all things that desperately need to happen to secure the future of the club regardless of who the manager is.
Also the fact we have a world class manager in Rafa is incredible, we'll never attract a better manager if he was to leave and what he's asking for to stay is very reasonable.
Most of all Rafa offers hope and if he was to go so would all hope, at least in the short term. Rafa leaving would be disastrous, not just becuase we'd be losing a top manager but also and perhaps even more so becuase of the lack of investment and mismanagement of the club that would have forced him to leave.
It would be an all time low under Ashley and that takes some doing. We'd have to do something to force change. Nobody wants to do it but if Ashley/Barnes/Charnley neglect the club to the point where Rafa feels he has to leave then boycotting a game / staging a protest may be our best chance of forcing change for the better.
Look at what Lazio achieved with a mass boycott and to a lesser extent West Ham fans forced change for the better with protests last season. It can work and I suppose trying something, anything, is better than sitting around doing nothing, watching Ashley/Barnes/Charnley make the same mistakes over and over again while the club continually declines.
Hopefully it doesn't come to that, hopefully this campaign and general fan discontent at the minute forces the club into doing something. The best thing about this is it's a proactive campaign rather than the usual reactive ones, it's a threat to Ashley/Barnes/Charnley while they still have time to change track.
There is a great opportunity at the minute. We're at a bit of a crossroads, get it right and we can go on to really enjoy the next few years, grow the club and bring everyone together. Get it wrong and it'll be Ashleys biggest mistake. This campaign is a good way of making our feelings known and putting pressure on the club to get it right as is joining and supporting NUST and there activity.
