sorry destro but i have to disagree a little, if i remember rightly red nose had a few years before he won the league with the mancs (maybe 7 years) but as i remember it he won the league with a cheaply assembled squad made up largely of players who came through their youth system. Remember hansen "you will win nothing with kids"
as for our spending, lets just say for arguments sake that we have spent less than the mancs and chavs (although we must be pretty damn close to their spending), then lets say we have outspent west ham, spurs, stoke, hull etc etc etc yet they still manage to take points away from us. spending money is not the be all and end all of winning the league, we can have the 11 most expensive players in our squad and still not win the league as most of them will be twiddling their thumbs on the bench or playing out of position with rafa in charge.
lets just forget about all this spending bollox, you all talked about the chavs and mancs buying the league and are now complaining that we can't buy the league.
the fact is we have a mnager who is too negative, just take the game against the bitters, he took off keane and torres to defend the lead, we lost the lead and then had nothing left in an attacking sense. lets just look at the league, we got ourselves ahead and then the negativity set in, we lost our lead and now i have to question whether we will get it back.