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[Olivier's xmas twist]

Correction. Utd does not have great resources. Look at their net spend over the last 10 years or so and you will see they have barely spent a lot.

The part in bold... AW has got us into this position. He left the squad to the bare bones, then got us into 3rd place mostly because of RVP, Allah's blessings and the failure of Spurs and Chelsea YET we look at this season and say it was a good season. No, it wasnt a good season! We just had another season.. you could copy and paste any of the last 6 seasons and it would look eerily similar!

Thats your Opionion But at the end of the day it won't matter neither will mine.

UTD do have better resources then us stop being silly they can still afford to buy 3 players for 30 mill or more we can't do that and you know it.

[fakeyank]

Well not really. I think it's valid to compare yourself to the best and aspire to be the best. We should be doing that. But we should also be realistic. You said above that we have the resources to be one of the top 3 in world football. How so? ManYoo, Chelsea and City can all massively out-spend us. One is a bigger club, the other two are bankrolled. And that's just in this country. The two Spanish teams have bigger resources too.

Sadly these days there is a correlation between money and success. I do think things were mis-managed last summer which left us struggling this year. Wenger is to blame in part (I don't believe entirely) for that but he deserves some credit for us being in 3rd rather than in mid-table right now as we all feared. I don't think we should be too disgraced about being below the sides above us for obvious reasons, I do think we should be closer to them though given our resources.

Real, City and Chelsea are the real money bags of world football

Utd and Barca are strong because they have good managers and people around the club that want to win football matches. Utd's net spending is just 8 million quid a season! Thats not breaking the bank. We can surely do that!

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/

We have the money. Everything in the papers or what we hear from AW or the news says the same.. we have the resources to significantly strengthen the team yet we dont! With the resources we have, we should be challenging for trophies and winning some every season.

[Kano]

Real, City and Chelsea are the real money bags of world football

Utd and Barca are strong because they have good managers and people around the club that want to win football matches. Utd's net spending is just 8 million quid a season! Thats not breaking the bank. We can surely do that!

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/

We have the money. Everything in the papers or what we hear from AW or the news says the same.. we have the resources to significantly strengthen the team yet we dont! With the resources we have, we should be challenging for trophies and winning some every season.

[fakeyank]

they spent 130 million more than us in that time

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/

And whose fault is that?

[Kano]

dont care

just pointing out your figures are wrong for net spending

34248923849 titles or whatever it is now, equals a lot of money to spend. utd have never been shy to spend

[Joker]

We have made a choice not to spend much in the transfer market, a choice which has resulted in us stagnating as a football club over the past 7 years.

[fakeyank]

Thank you for that! You made it easier. All this talk of "we cant compete with the money power of Utd/City" is absolute bollocks then! Liverpool and spurs have spent more than Utd yet Utd know how to spend wisely and be at the top! Last 10 seasons, they have spent 17 million quid a season. Surely we can spend 10 million quid a season? Or are we worse than that? Why have we not strengthened? Arsene Wenger! He thinks he is going to win everything with Diaby, Vela, Denilson, Benayoun, Scillaci and co.

[Joker]

And look at some of the clubs who have spent more, Stoke, Sunderland and Aston Villa. If they were able to spend more than us, surely there was some spare capacity and we could have spend more if we wanted to? Or do we really believe we are in a tighter financial straigtjacket than the aforementioned clubs?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Real, City and Chelsea are the real money bags of world football

Utd and Barca are strong because they have good managers and people around the club that want to win football matches. Utd's net spending is just 8 million quid a season! Thats not breaking the bank. We can surely do that!

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/

We have the money. Everything in the papers or what we hear from AW or the news says the same.. we have the resources to significantly strengthen the team yet we dont! With the resources we have, we should be challenging for trophies and winning some every season.

yep because the papers and Aw tell the truth fact is we don't and never will know if we ever had the money simples.

Obvioulsy we had some money as we spent some in september, but i doubt we had loads as you suggest.

If we did we don't know how much the board released but that a topic for another thread this one has gone of course for too long now.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Thank you for that! You made it easier. All this talk of "we cant compete with the money power of Utd/City" is absolute bollocks then! Liverpool and spurs have spent more than Utd yet Utd know how to spend wisely and be at the top! Last 10 seasons, they have spent 17 million quid a season. Surely we can spend 10 million quid a season? Or are we worse than that? Why have we not strengthened? Arsene Wenger! He thinks he is going to win everything with Diaby, Vela, Denilson, Benayoun, Scillaci and co.

So you believe we can chuck the same amount of money on a player that city and UTD can more fool you if you beileve that.

The bit in bold well duh. UTD know how to win titles so they know how to go about it.

Spuds and pool had to spend that money to get them where they wanted to be.

We did not need to spend money to finish 3rd/4th which was the aim for the 4 st years on the move to the emirates and anyone with a brain could see that.