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Originally Posted by pedantic
Playing devils advocate for a minute...
But you do realise that Spurs are only £13 million behind Chelsea, regarding the purchases of players, over the past 5 seasons? So very little in it.
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Except we've sold a lot to fund it. We made £20m on Berbascum. We made something like £11m on Keane and then bought him back at another profit.
We've spent money within a tight business model but we've also earnt it by selling a lot of players. And those purchases has spread quite a few players. We haven't just gone out and spunks £30m on Berbascum, £30m on Ferdinand (and that was what, 8 years ago?) and possibly another £30m on Tevez, £60m on Ribery? Our top signing is Modric at £16m and that's less than what you paid for van Nistelrooy in the 90s. Also our wage structure is on a feasible business model, not the £125k a week Ronaldo gets. You can't compare.
Anyway, money doesn't make success as City will find out. The players won't come unless you are in the top 4, and you can't get into the top 4 without them. Its a vicious circle. So unless you can fluke it, or a team implodes, you're screwed. Everton managed it once, Villa almost managed it. That's it. If a team does find decent talent and convince them to come the top 4 teams circle and swoop in. It happened with Berbascum and already the reports have Lennon going everywhere in the north west along with Modric.