Just look at our reactions to defeats against barca 2009 and 2011
2009 - sell ronaldo and let tevez go, signings, valencia, owen, obertan and diouff
2011 - signings, DDG, young and jones
Its pathetic how we did not even look to better ourselves, almost like fergie accepted or did not have the energy to get to the next level. 2008 was a spectacular reaction of not even building on our 2008 success, instead of looking to accept ronaldo saw a different path, we beg him to stay one more year, sign berbatov who was not better than what we had, and let quality players be replaced with mediocre players to the point, where cleverley, valencia, young, berbatov, park and welbeck started filling up positions left by better players from 2008 onwards
What happened in the 2009-10 season and 2011/12 season?
Finished second a point behind chelsea in the title race in may 2010
finished second losing the title to city on goal difference may 2012
So failure to add to the squad 2009 and 2011 cost us the PL twice, and overall this path we took from 2008 onwards is costing us big time