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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
yeah I would say you have, the first title you won without spending massive although you did still spend above the average, prising players away from other top division teams presumably you was able to offer keane and cantona superior wages to their previous clubs.
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You presume wrongly I'm afraid ! Keane had the choice of Arsenal or Blackburn, maybe not the case with Arsenal, but certainly Blackburn could have offered significantly more wages than Man U. And Cantona wasn't getting regular team football with Leeds. so chose to play elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Then after the first title you started spending bigger and bigger and like nffc said if you the only difference between you and chelsea is your spending has been sustained over a number of years whilst chelsea brought a bunch of players in one go. Look at your current squad and you telling me it cost significantly less then chelsea's to build?
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True enough, but the thing is that Man U have raised their money through good marketing over the years and hefty season ticket sales. I personally don't begrudge Chelsea their success, they have been the best team over the last 2 seasons, by some margin. Despite the wealth of Man U, there is no way Man U can spend huge amounts of money in 1 season, the shareholders would not let that happen. It's the fact that a sugar daddy has piled in so much money in such a short space of time that annoys supporters (not just Man U fans). The same thing happened in 1995, when Jack Walker did exactly the same at Blackburn. The majority of football supporters accept that the "big clubs" will have enough financial clout to buy the better players, but it's the "sugar daddies" that cause the discontent amongst football fans. It's not that they spend big, it's that they spend big with funds not generated through the good running of the football club in question. It takes time, to make a club successful financially via good marketing. People like Roman Abramovich, and Jack Walker, make a mockery out of good financial management of the likes of Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool, to name just a few. If a team is successful by buying players with cash generated through good financial running of a football club, then good luck to them imho.