Congratulations you've just reduced the chances of someone on here helping you get a ticket for the match exponentially. Nice work for one post. Most of the clubs that have been run by clowns like our two are in administration or in recovery from it. The only succesful debt run organisation is Man Utd and their turnover is enormous and sustains the debt model. To get us as close as he did under those constraints was a monumental achievement. Yes he made dodgy purchases, as does every manager in the league. The difference for Rafa was he couldn't afford mistakes like Aquilani and Keane. Other managers waste £30m and move onwards and upwards. In the end Rafa was selling to buy, you don't win that way in the long term, you only need to look at what is happening at the Emirates for proof of that. The clowns were taking £30m every season out of Rafa's transfer pot. That's a Torres a season. How can you remain competitive in that situation?