This guy gets it.
We got to a CL final spending less than £150m on a whole squad of players.
Harry Kane and Harry winks cost £0.
Dele and Eric Dier £10m between them.
Lloris £11m Eriksen £11m.
Sonny £22m.
We paid over £70m for Sanchez, jannsen and Aurier.
Where was the best value in those transfers? The big money ones??
It’s not what you spend. It’s the way that you spend it.
Pep Guardiola said that. I think.
And let’s not forget Ange won the treble in Scotland with a squad assembled for less than £10m and 5 cases of Irn Bru.
Probably.
That’s all well and good but like Liverpool and VVD or what Arse are trying with Declan Rice there are moments where the player you need to make the system go up a level might cost a bomb and it’s those moments that will show whether we are pretenders or serious. Pep also inherited a billion pound team and had to spend another billion to get it where he wanted it. Money isn’t everything, scouting is the big one but money can be a difference factor.