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davek said:
Reading some of the responses in this thread it becomes clear how football clubs like Everton fade into obscurity. We could become a Notts Forest or Bolton or Preston for some supporters, never winning a sausage again as long as some "purity" was maintained. I'm sure that's what must have happened to the likes of those clubs. Bypassed by clubs with ambition and their supporters clinging onto some bullshit holier-than-thou identity.

It's laughable when you think we were the Mersey Millionaires who demanded and got other teams players during the 60s and 70s - the prototype Evertonski with our own Abramovich in John Moores.

What's Abramovitch done for Chelsea? Just allowed them to win two Premiership crowns and become a real European force again.

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You forgot Leeds as a club in your list mate the only probelm is i cant work out are they an ambitious team who strived for glory, or a team desperately clinging to their sense of identity!

Fact is there are no free meal tickets when it comes to investment. Abromovich hasnt thrown money at Chelsea if you study their accounts he has loaned them 500 million and this loan is added to every year, but i guess he got were he is today by being a nice guy about his finacial management.

I am one of those clinging to the "purity" and "identity" of the club and unashamedly so, for me there would be something meaningless in winning the title the way Chelsea and Blackburn did theres no sense of acheivement just playing Championship manager.

The model and the foundation of the club is right and it is and should be geared for bringing our own talent through, with investment WITHIN OUR MEANS to add additions to the squad, i atually beleive the words SCHOOL OF SCEINCE still mean something. I think we only need to spend 20 mill and beyond that i will put my faith in the existing squad the young players coming through and the 3-4 additions the 20 million will bring.

I am against foregin investment, i repeat there is no free investment anymore! Those who think money is the be all and end all of success should really study football rather then reading he rags.

No dounbht many feel this is the most important summer ever, just like last summer and just like next summer will be too.
 
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I think we will always be able to snap up players capable of helping us finishing fourth, and I think with a few more quality additions we will have the strength in depth we missed last season. But for challenging the top 3 I believe that is a completely different market, the gap between 1st and 4th huge, and lets face it, Liverpool are light years behind Man United. They only have themselves to blame thouugh as the [Poor language removed] have had plenty of money and pissed it away over the years. I think if Everton were in the same spending bracket as Liverpool, forget fourth, with Moyes I think we'd seriously be genuine title contenders. If investment came our way I would snap their hand off, as much as I have loved our steady development over the years, for making the next step I think money is the only way in this day and age.
 
Neiler said:
I am one of those clinging to the "purity" and "identity" of the club and unashamedly so, for me there would be something meaningless in winning the title the way Chelsea and Blackburn did theres no sense of acheivement just playing Championship manager.

The model and the foundation of the club is right and it is and should be geared for bringing our own talent through, with investment WITHIN OUR MEANS to add additions to the squad, i atually beleive the words SCHOOL OF SCEINCE still mean something. I think we only need to spend 20 mill and beyond that i will put my faith in the existing squad the young players coming through and the 3-4 additions the 20 million will bring.

I am against foregin investment, i repeat there is no free investment anymore! Those who think money is the be all and end all of success should really study football rather then reading he rags.

No dounbht many feel this is the most important summer ever, just like last summer and just like next summer will be too.
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But that's pretty much how Everton won the League in 1963 under Catterick. We went out and used Moores Millions. We'll have to hand that one back! :P

It's all swings and roundabouts; feast or famine. Some clubs will benefit in one era from a big wedge and then watch on as others spend in another period. Me, I think we've been in the bargain basement way too long - it's time for a step change.
 

davek said:
But that's pretty much how Everton won the League in 1963 under Catterick. We went out and used Moores Millions. We'll have to hand that one back! :P

It's all swings and roundabouts; feast or famine. Some clubs will benefit in one era from a big wedge and then watch on as others spend in another period. Me, I think we've been in the bargain basement way too long - it's time for a step change.
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I agree mate we have been in bargain basement for far to long, but i think we took a massive step out of it last summer and hopefully this will become the norm rather then the exception.

We should be adding at least three players of Yakubu's quality a season, i think were we differ is our opinion of how much is needed to acheive this and the potential impact this could have on the development of the club. I am also a fan of the present board and their finacial management of the club. I know your not and i respect that.

I know your not against this but i beleive strongly in giving the youngsters intermittent oppurtunites in the first team squad and this has to be considered in any recruitment dirve, so much time care and effort has gone into developing this side of our club since Smith cut our youth team, and we have such a good crop coming through that if we didnt allow them them to come through we would be another Newcastle, or Spurs. Everton always had and always will have a soul and tradition thats makes us what we are which is great. I am proud of the fact that our senior sqaud is once again respected, but i am also proud that what the present regime has given us in pride in that the club in now being run in the Everton way.
 
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I think we will always be able to snap up players capable of helping us finishing fourth, and I think with a few more quality additions we will have the strength in depth we missed last season. But for challenging the top 3 I believe that is a completely different market, the gap between 1st and 4th huge, and lets face it, Liverpool are light years behind Man United. They only have themselves to blame thouugh as the [Poor language removed] have had plenty of money and pissed it away over the years. I think if Everton were in the same spending bracket as Liverpool, forget fourth, with Moyes I think we'd seriously be genuine title contenders. If investment came our way I would snap their hand off, as much as I have loved our steady development over the years, for making the next step I think money is the only way in this day and age.
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Welcome to GOT and good first post. (y)
 

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