theHotHead wrote:Im not an advocate of the "spending money" route to winning trophies, I am perfectly happy with how we have acted financially. The problem has been the purchases themselves, spending over the odds too often and not spending enough too often.
Then you have the coaching/management that has been pathetic for years.
But something that aggravates me equally as much is having an owner that cares f**k all about football. One thing nobody can accuse Abramavich of is not caring, he is always at matches with that "you can't tell if he is about to do a shit or smile" look on his Chevy Chase!!
Exactly this far too much spend on the wrong players like Pepe and Xhaka when better players where available Mahrez/Kante for less.
Also I’ve been saying for ages now we need to start buying BPL proven quality most successful teams are built on this Rooney, Carrick, Ferdinand at United... Cole, Lampard, Fabregas, Kante etc for Chelsea... Tevez, Stones, Walker, Mahrez at city, then Liverpool have Van Dijk, Henderson, Mane
My point is every winning team in recent years had BPL proven quality in the squad, it’s easier for the player to hit the ground running and become important to the team, look at us now our record signing Pepe 3 years in and he performs like a teenage Walcott at best, now imagine how much better of we would have been if we pushed the boat out for Mahrez/Sane instead.
Also to add to this point they’re plenty of bargains from smaller teams to be found in recent years like Wijnaldum, Cahill, Robertson, Henderson etc but because they play for smaller teams everyone thinks they’re s**t and they’d rather we spend 50M+ on some one season wonder from France like Pepe
Time to spend smarter if we want to progress as a club, because for every Xhaka, Mustafi and so on we set ourselves back 3/4 years for that one position, unlike Chelsea we can’t afford to spend big again on another player for that same position the season after