TraffordBlue
Player Valuation: £30m
I've often heard the stories about how great we were in the 80's but how we were affected by the European ban in terms of developing a huge name for ourselves on that stage. But around the time of the early 90's, I believe that we were still considered one of the 'Big 5' along with Liverpool, Man United, Arsenal and Spurs. So what I don't understand is why we did not manage to stay at least around the top 6 after 1990? I'm mainly interested in the period from around 1990 to 1995 as I assume that is where the damage was truly done and we have been paralysed to an extent ever since.
Can those who are old enough to have lived through it explain what went wrong in your opinion? Were we not able to attract good enough players, and if so, why not? The Big 5 or 6 these days are able to do that. Why did crowds start to fall to the low 20,000s? We dropped to 20K crowds in 1993, was that related to the Park End rebuild or apathy?
Did we make a mistake appointing Howard Kendall for a 2nd time in 1990, and was Mike Walker expected to be a good appointment at the time? It could just have been that there weren't many decent managers out there for what we needed which seems to be similar to the position we're in at the moment.
Quite a few questions in there but would be interested in the views.
Can those who are old enough to have lived through it explain what went wrong in your opinion? Were we not able to attract good enough players, and if so, why not? The Big 5 or 6 these days are able to do that. Why did crowds start to fall to the low 20,000s? We dropped to 20K crowds in 1993, was that related to the Park End rebuild or apathy?
Did we make a mistake appointing Howard Kendall for a 2nd time in 1990, and was Mike Walker expected to be a good appointment at the time? It could just have been that there weren't many decent managers out there for what we needed which seems to be similar to the position we're in at the moment.
Quite a few questions in there but would be interested in the views.