I hope you’re right Dubai. The only thing that can cheer me up now is a season of Bale smashing them in from improbable angles, pulling love heart celebrations left, right and centre
It does feel like we need someone like that, though. Or something, anything at the top table.
This team was built on the cheap, on scrimping and cheaping out, on buying bargain bins and second choices, on obsessing with 0 net spend for ten long years, every year.
And the logical limitations of that show themselves every time we get to a final or close to something. Our second-choice boys, who try hard, are never good enough to cross the line against teams that have their managers' first choices out and starting.
And we lose, again and again, as a result.
I'm tired of this model, and of being football's eternal luckless losers. I don't want Swiss Ramble's fudging meaningless trophy for being the best-run nothing club in the top division, of being run efficiently with nothing to show for it.
We are changing. The club's circumstances are changing, and Poch is begging us to believe - and building the mentality that we can win, that we can fight and bleed and never give up. There are two parts to putting that into practice.
The first is with us, the fans. If nothing else, this run needs to teach us that our boys always try hard under Poch - they give everything, and never give up. We need to believe in the team, as much as Poch does.
But the second is with the boardroom, with the chairman and the owner. This summer is a time for change. No more being cheapskates. No more obsessing with sell-to-buy. No more craven cowardice.
Buy who the manager wants. *Whomever* he fudging wants. Don't ask, don't question the price. Buy first, and recoup the cost later if you really have to.
Time to go with the change. Or be outmoded by it.
I expect nothing less from them this summer. And maybe that will involve Bale rocking up at the Lane again, who knows?
