I have never said that Chelsea bought that title - they just tweaked a very good team and dumped an overly defensive manager.
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Transfers Summer 2017 transfer window or, waiting for Godot
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You're a bit stupid aren't you. Only one team can win the league now I count at least 4 other sides who regularly spend big and turns out they don't win the league. Prime examples being Woolwich, Dippers and recently Utd and City.
No. I disagree with your statement thatTottenham Massive are you disagreeing that our two biggest signings have flopped, or what?
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favours a scatter gun approach to transfers. At no point has he hinted at thatOkey doke mate.No. I disagree with your statement that
Great post, hits it on the head. We have the people and the equipment its patience we need.
Yes our way is much more pure & better for our national team too.
More rewards for teams with homegrown players might help.
A better minimum amount of homegrown players system too.
My other idea is to scrap the league prize fund & just share it equally between all teams. This will even out the competition a little bit. The incentive will still be staying up, europe & winning the title.
I am on board.
Same every season......
Last summer= Spending big is a waste of time.
End of season (& team that spends big wins the title again)= team that won title just bought it, so its a hollow achievement.
This summer= actually the team that won the title didn't buy it because now it doesn't suit my argument.
Which team does that & wins titles regularly without spending big?
Probably 100m at least.
But I'm a struggling doctor.
You obviously have problems with your bed side manner then!
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It's professional football, so spending abilities matter. But there is no relationship between transfer spending and success. Clubs able to support higher wage bills generally do better. But there are also clear inefficiencies. You can spend less and do better than rivals by recruiting smarter and having a high quality academy. SAF's MUFC teams, Klopp's Dortmund, Sevilla all have spent less than their rivals on transfers, but won titles and trophies. They built better squads by being smarter.
We finished higher than our wage bill 9 of the last 10 years by being smarter than our rivals in exactly this way.
It's a seller's transfer market this summer. Europe has a PL tax and there are few players for sale who can help us right now. Possibly none if we don't want to pay that tax.
And we're not doing that.
And had zero European football to balance.
There approach was right ten odd years ago when there was only one big dick in town. Now that Citeh and Chel$ea have billionaires who can actually spend more than Yanited the same old philosophy will not work and from what i see they don't have a production line of youngsters coming through and even if they did that cunt of a manager they have wouldn't play them anyway.
Times have changed but they have a self entitled fan base (not unlike those Kraut loving cunts down the road from them) who think that if they just throw more money at the problem some of it will stick.
When you look at the money wasted since Fergie left it is quite astonishing.
What are you talking about?
Change my stance? I'm backing the manager......our policy is young players and signings he can get the best out of.
If he wants Barkley then great.....what should I do, hate Barkley and hope he's shit to be right? No, I'd hope he can become our Cantona in a few years.
I trust the manager, so if he signs players, I will trust his judgement and if he doesn't I will be equally satisfied.
People claiming to trust Poch, but only if he does what they want.
I find it astonishing that the people demanding we spend money are not talking about a striker and RB. I could understand their point if that was the case.....people who were livid we sold Walker and who think Janssen is crap, yet they are only babbling on about CMs and wingers.
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The spending big brigade seem to forget that we're building a new stadium. Now they will say the statement was made about transfer spending would not be affected however that was before Brexit and the price of everything went up. The stadium costs have risen since 2014 when Pochettino arrived.
Your deranged or delusional to think that transfers don't improve us or others Many shouted for prudent pragmatism last summer . The Kenyan bloke was a great addition to the first 11 and Jansen poor but always it's a gamble .
We need one player like an Isco to get us over the line . Rather spend 60 million on ONE game changer ( yes we have the money ) than a scatter gun approach on a hope and waits . as we are so nearly there .
We can't live in fairy land for ever , the wardrobe will close and winter has to have a christmas .
We need one player like an Isco to get us over the line . Rather spend 60 million on ONE game changer ( yes we have the money ) than a scatter gun approach on a hope and waits . as we are so nearly there .
We can't live in fairy land for ever , the wardrobe will close and winter has to have a christmas .
I can't believe the lack of patience...people who claimed we would be lucky to finish top 6 demanding titles!
All the EXACT same stuff said in January, and look at the run we went on, with our weak squad and inadequate first team
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