With the money we spent we should have been able to spend more. It’s something like a Billion spend in 10 years but 1 billion was taken out.
That’s what I mean by Glazer rules. Make a bad buy like Maguire, Fred, Sancho and Pogba? We’re stuck with them. We can’t make a loss on their sales without needing to replace them at a higher rate and still improve in other areas.
City rotate players in and out because they can afford to. Laporte in the bench? No biggie. He’s gone in the summer no matter what loss they take. Madrid buy Hazard and Jovic at 200m odd? They’re not being forced to play the players, off to the bench they go alongside Bale. We’ll just operate transfers around them.
We are literally on that financial level but we have confused what Man Utd have become under the Glazers with what we are. If we were simply allowed to operate with what we generate you couldn’t tell a difference between that and being propped up by Qatar.
I agree with you.
City have bad buys, they just rectify it in the next window. Cancelo, one of the best full backs last season created problems and is out.
Yet, we are here hoping Martial comes good. City, instead realised Sterling, Jesus, ZInchenko can leave and let them go, we are here hoping to keep DDG's feelings happy.
That is the difference, they are there to win, we are sentiment FC.
Look at the number of players City have, how many do you think don't deserve to be there? Phillips?
Look at United, DDG, Maguire, Mctominay, Fred, Martial at the bare minimum.