everyone is a risk, but what I find unforgivable is that we do not learn.....we keep making the same mistakes (bringing in people on big money).
it's one thing bringing in a big star (maradona, cruyff, shearer, best, ronaldo, etc) and paying him a king's ransom (which admittedly was never our style during our dominant era).........but it a totally different matter, bringing in mere potential, and paying them big money.
and if I were the club, I would carefully examine our policy towards bringing in free transfers.
but I think the club is being run by bafoons (since parry left). The people we should be keeping, we are selling or dismissing. And the deadwood, or unskilled, that should be sold (or never bought) are still at the club (and often on stupid money).
we are living in a parallel universe, where: up is down, black is white, hero is zero, good is bad.
so let's dismiss kuyt, mereless and maxi (all top drawer, highly experienced, technical players).....and give a contract to shelvey, and big wages to joe cole, and bring in 5 feet 6 inch joe allen, and old man yankee clint dempsey....and some unknown lad, borini.
bizarre way of running a top organisation, sell your best assets, and replace them with inferior people.