Quote Originally Posted by -Xs- View Post
Whilst that is true Letts, teams have always been able to outspend us, although, the options in the PL were fewer.
When we were an ambitious team, we were the 2nd most desirable PL team to join, sometimes the 1st. But I don't think that was ever about the money. Yes, the billionaires muddy'd the field, but is that the sole reason we aim now for 4th not 1st? And could that play on the minds of prospective ambitious 'super quality' players?
The Billionaire has nothing to do why we aim for 4th. Yes the club complain about it but its a seperate issue. The reaason why the lowest they accept is 4th. Is so when the FFP comes into play we'd be ok and self sustaining. In the days you mentiond, yes we may have been out spent, but it was not all crazy wages people playing for money etc.

Heck with us we did not need to spend big cause finding those players worked for us. Which the likes of Anelka proved.