There is an incredibly easily measurable correlation between wage spend and success lol, it’s not opinion it’s fact. Of fucking course that doesn’t mean spend big wages for the sake of it or ineptly like Manchester United, nobody is asking for that..
But clubs that constantly stay in their box are never likely to challenge. We have always been more cowardly with spending. We’d never have invested the 100m in Rice for example with a 200k+ a week wage too.
When are we ever in for a top table player like that? Never. So we never make that next step at all. Van Djik and Alisson took Liverpool there - anyone see Levy making signings of that calibre?
There’s no reason we can’t btw. We are a wealthy London club. We can challenge for top tier talent but we settle for Solanke, Johnson and some kids. Well we don’t, but we know the fans who do.. they’re in this thread with us.
Solanke for example - good player tbf. Never a Kane replacement. You replace elite with Solanke, Maddison, Johnson (good mid table talent) .. you’ll finish where you deserve.
Some people are happy with this. Again, we know who they are. They deserve everything they get tbh. Apparently they don’t really care anyway, which is nice.