[Albion] Where do you want The Albion to be in 5 years time?

[Superphil]

Above Palace, and still in the top flight.

 

[studio150]

My view is that surely you have to want the very best? Champions of Europe.

Setting your sights too low.

I want us to be World Cup champions and have taken over from the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, PSG, Manchester City etc as THE club that all top players want to join.

Back in the real world and based on reality, a top 10 PL team, which regularly has decent Cup runs

 

[Pavilionaire]

Why have only 11% put "In the Champions League"?

Champions League football - coupled with Bloom and Barber's sound management of the club - would be hugely exciting.

 

[Winker]

I just want us to bigger than Leeds and Wednesday , if that's possible!

 

[Dick Head]

Gradual progression.

[MENTION=1413]Mackenzie[/MENTION]: What do we want?
Everybody: Gradual progression.
[MENTION=1413]Mackenzie[/MENTION]: When do we want it?
Everybody: In due course.

 

[nicko31]

Just waiting for someone to vote for League 2

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Why have only 11% put "In the Champions League"?

Champions League football - coupled with Bloom and Barber's sound management of the club - would be hugely exciting.

Coz I've read the question as - what is the least you want, so I've put 'in the premier league' - everything on top of that is a bonus.

Plus I've been taught not to be greedy on what I want, let things come to you instead

 

[Diablo]

Where do YOU want Albion to be in 5 years time?

Still at the Amex !!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I just want us to bigger than Leeds and Wednesday , if that's possible!

Now be sensible, Champions of Eeurope yes, but bigger than Leeds and Massive/ . . impossible!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Our discussion also covered what it would cost to achieve Champions League, for instance, so where you want to be isn't necessarily the very top if you feel the risk associated with that is too much?

Good point. I certainly don't want The Lizard putting himself in jeopardy, but he won't though.

I can see him selling the club to one of these super rich weirdos at some point if he thought it was in the clubs interest. Not sure what I think about that....

 

[Bakero]

What we might want is one thing, what we are likely to get is quite another. Who are these eejits who want/expect us to be playing Champions League football? With the way football is now it's never likely to happen, never mind in the next five years..

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VERB [TRANSITIVE] British English /wɒnt/

1 to feel that you would like to have, keep, or do something


Not sure where you're getting expect from. Has the poll been changed?

 

[AmexRuislip]

PL and still climbing .

 

[spence]

Premier league and making a profit every season

 

[Weststander]

Simply staying in the PL for me.

With survival comfirmed before the last run of games as a bonus, and tactics back to the brilliant CH counter attacking once we have a fantastic defensive set up/players.

 

[Weststander]

Good point. I certainly don't want The Lizard putting himself in jeopardy, but he won't though.

I can see him selling the club to one of these super rich weirdos at some point if he thought it was in the clubs interest. Not sure what I think about that....

Is Steve Parish super rich?

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Why have only 11% put "In the Champions League"?

Champions League football - coupled with Bloom and Barber's sound management of the club - would be hugely exciting.

People are being realistic. It would - of course it would be - and of course Leicester did it but that sort of thing happens only once in a generation. Champions League football? Extremely unlikely.

 

[Two Professors]

Established top ten,with bullet-proof finances.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Survival is the only thing we can consistently hope for. Is there even such thing as a top 10 team any more? Currently I would argue that only applies to Arsenal and Everton. Every other team outside the top 6 is more or less in the same boat.

These things are cyclical anyway, even if we manage a top 10 finish it won't happen year after year. All it takes is to sell a couple of players or a couple or poor buys in the transfer window and you're in a relegation dogfight. I'd give us 50/50 to not have been relegated in 5 years time.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Good point. I certainly don't want The Lizard putting himself in jeopardy, but he won't though.

I can see him selling the club to one of these super rich weirdos at some point if he thought it was in the clubs interest. Not sure what I think about that....

We had the same chat, what if we had three seasons at say 15th/16th or 17th and it was felt that the great man had taken us as far as he can? Would we want him to sell to an Asian investor or a sporting group from Dubai? We concluded that we may put up with Premier League survival than generate significant debt and run the risk of a financial crisis in the wings.

 

[Weststander]

Survival is the only thing we can consistently hope for. Is there even such thing as a top 10 team any more? Currently I would argue that only applies to Arsenal and Everton. Every other team outside the top 6 is more or less in the same boat.

These things are cyclical anyway, even if we manage a top 10 finish it won't happen year after year. All it takes is to sell a couple of players or a couple or poor buys in the transfer window and you're in a relegation dogfight. I'd give us 50/50 to not have been relegated in 5 years time.

West Ham and their entitled fans arrogantly presume that are very much part of that unthreatened bracket after this summer's spending. (That season 2017/18 was a one off)