alright I'll bite, which of 'all the best players' when he has purchased them would have walked into the Real, Barca, Bayern, PSG teams.
Ederson - no
Walker - possibly
Laporte - no
Stones - no
Gundogan - no
Sane - no
Silva - possibly
Mendy - possibly
Nolito - no
Bravo - hahaha
Jesus - no
Mahrez - possibly
Jorginho - possibly
So possibly 5 of 'all the best players', out of that list I don't think 1 would get in a world XI
It won't be admitted here but Pep has been buying good but not great players (or great but not quite world class depending on your outlook). We haven't a single player on the books bar KDB who's start for Barca, maybe Kun would start ahead of Benz at Madrid too but thats it.
We're buying a lot and I mean A LOT of £50-60m players to have an even and balance squad but that seems to be how we do it. We don't spend on the £100m or so on one player like other clubs, we buy 1.5 to 2 players for that money.
We haven't a single players in the top 15 most expensive signings of all time but we are the ones pushing up individual prices and inflating the market? You have to go to 16th on the list to find our most expensive...
15 most expensive players of all time, driving inflation:
Real Madrid - 4 two of which were bought 10 years + ago,
Barcelona - 4.
PSG- 2 1st and 2nd
Manchester United - 2
Juventus, Liverpool and Chelsea - 1 each.
Looks to me like 2 clubs are the ones bringing about this inflation, 2 Spanish ones and PSG.
Our most expensive signing is actually only 5th on the list of the leagues nevermind globally most expensive.
We're spending a lot of money but we are doing it in an even way for 20+ similar standard players, we are getting 4 players for around £200m. Other clubs are getting 2 or at a push 3 and leaving themselves exposed spending huge chunks on single individuals.
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Pep's overall spend is insane, there is no denying that, but his use of said money has been much better than say United, Chelsea's even Barca's.
I mean we got Sane 50m (all prices with add ones), Laporte(55m), Jesus (30m), Gundogan (18m), Ederson (35m) Walker (55m)and Bernardo Silva (£43m) for £288m approx.
For the same money United paid got Lukaku (75m), Pogba (90m) Martial (56m) Bailly (30m) Lindelof (£30m)for a combined 281m.
For the same money approx again Barca got Coutinho, Dembele less £40m
Of course we've spent more than United no denying that, but imho thus far our use of insane money has been far better than most other clubs that have spent the same (United, PSG, Barca). Although time may prove me wrong