maguskwt » Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:42 pm wrote:red till i die!! » Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:27 am wrote:we have spent more than enough money to kick on this season but unfortunately we didnt spend it that well and secure at least one player who makes a difference. we have opted for numbers instead to build a bench that should have been sorted in the previous windows.
the prices we are paying for some of the players is ridiculous. allen, sakho, lovren and lallana being the worst.
rodgers refused to work with van gaal when offered the job and now look at the players he has attracted to the scum, with no european football either. the difference being that by the time van gaal spends the same as brendan did he could probably win the league despite us having a 2 year head start on him.
we wont challenge for the league this year and we are going to have our work cut out for top 4.
i cant help but feel that had our management been better in the market, then this season we could have been walking the walk rather than 3 years later still talking the talk.
With what money were we gonna build a squad in the previous windows? The reason we could spend so much this season was 1. We are back in the champions league and 2. We sold Suarez for 75 million. With this opportunity we need to use it wisely and I believe we did. Like what yakka said, we just need to get the new players all playing as a team. You don't need to spend the way man u, Chelsea and man City are spending to win the league, and we can't afford to anyway. It won't be sustainable for us. But there are recent examples of teams winning the league with managers who has clear vision, like atletico Madrid and borrussia dortmund.
how about the £100 million + we spent in the 2 years before this window ? and the very little return we got from it. we should have at least having a bench for that kind of money but instead we frittered it away on players who just arent good enough, players that we then sent out on loan because quite frankly they arent even good enough for the bench.
my point was that had we of gotten better from that money we would now be further on in our development and in a position spend what we did in this summer to add better players like our rivals did rather than having to wait for a relatively new team to gel.
i dont believe we need to spend 500 mil or anything to build a challenge either but it isnt like we have spent nothing up till this point. our spending is right up there with the rest over the last 3 years. granted not as high as manure,city or the chavs but it isnt chicken feed. i would also say that both of those teams you mentioned didnt spend what money they had on players to loan out but on players that improved their initial 11. those clubs also get a pittance in money compared to what we get during a season and i'll bet we have outspent both in the last 3 years.
like i said if we had of done better with the money in the first 2 seasons under brendan we could have been in a position now to spend 120 mil on 3 or 4 players rather than the 9 or so we did just to add a bit of depth whilst correcting previous mistakes.
