Matty
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bobrivers said:sniff said:fulhamroad22 said:Blue4ever85 said:Come on John, show some ambition and join the team.
But, do Chelsea not have ambition? Surely every top team (and I include City in this now) has ambitions to win the league.
They might have ambition but the ammount of managers your team go thorugh, and the fact your chairman signs players is a little embarrasing. Your new manager is nothing but a yes man, same as he was at AC, he deals with the team and the chairman decideds who he signs with a little help from Arneson(whats a sporting directors job)
Who signs your players? Who wanted Ronaldinho and Kaka? Hughes or your owners to make you more marketable? Even going after Terry has a lot to do with marketing appeal.
So Terry has to show ambition and join City,huh? What sort of ambition would make a player leave the club he played all his life for and won everything in the country, the club that is still one of the best in Europe, a permanent fixture in the CL and a title contender, the club where he became one of the best players in the world and England captain? To throw all that away to join City right now is not a sign of ambition, it's a sign of greed.
Win something before talking of ambition.
No, because winning something and ambition aren't mutually exclusive. We have 'ambitions' to be one of the Premierships top clubs, to win trophies nationally and in Europe. The fact we haven't reached that stage yet doesn't mean we don't have ambitions, or that we don't have the right to have them, or talk about them.
What you seem to be forgetting is, rewind 6 years and you're us. A billionnaire foreign owner has just taken over and is looking to spend BIG to break the, then, top 3 of Liverpool, United and Arsenal, you'd not won the league since 1955. Yes you'd won cup competitions, which is better than we've managed, but you weren't a Premiership, or a European force. Now you are. That's what we're doing.
I've no doubt a certain amount of greed would be involved in joining City for Terry, but what fans also need to grasp is that this is his career, he'll be retired in 6 years or so, he'll be looking to maximise his earnings before then. Also it's entirely possible that, after 2 titles, FA Cups and League Cups, plus numerous new managers Terry wants a 'new challenge'.
As for Hughes not being in charge of our signings, yes the Kaka, Robinho, Ronaldinho deals/non-deals were probably done by the owner, but do you really think ADUG were behind the signings of SWP, Bellamy, Given, RSC, Zabaletta, Kompany, Bridge and Barry? Those signings have Hughes' name all over them.