05-07-2023, 07:02 PM
Some were well worth it JL. Watch UEFA tv right now and you will see that we have a player that will one day go for really silly money. If said person could take a penalty half as well as he seems to think he can then he would be worth more still but thats another debate!
Point is where we were last summer we paid out a lot of money on potential to be good enough. Some paid off some didnt but on the whole our success rate was Ok. The shocking truth is that for a promoted club to compete it needs to spend £100m plus, the entirety of its PL windfall and thats why we are so close on FFP. The alternative was do a Norwich and spend peanuts, clear the debt and get relegated. Not sure its doing them too well.
The only bit that annoys me with hindsight is the January panic buys of Wood and Shelvey. If we hadn’t spunked £30m on the pair of them we wouldn’t even be having the discussion on cashing in on Brennan.
Point is where we were last summer we paid out a lot of money on potential to be good enough. Some paid off some didnt but on the whole our success rate was Ok. The shocking truth is that for a promoted club to compete it needs to spend £100m plus, the entirety of its PL windfall and thats why we are so close on FFP. The alternative was do a Norwich and spend peanuts, clear the debt and get relegated. Not sure its doing them too well.
The only bit that annoys me with hindsight is the January panic buys of Wood and Shelvey. If we hadn’t spunked £30m on the pair of them we wouldn’t even be having the discussion on cashing in on Brennan.