Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Those teams weren't spending that much per season and couldn't sustain a challenge for the Top 4 consistently. What they blew in fees, they couldn't afford in wages like we could. Also, we sat on heap of cash for a long and I've always maintained that instead of spreading £20m-£40m across 3 to 5 cheap and young players, we should have been doing what we were doing now. Buying one megastar and then looking for cheap deals for cover positions.

We were title contenders before the Emirates. If we hadn't broken up our title winning squad so quickly, I seriously doubt those teams would have been able to come near us. We went undefeated in the league when Abromovich first arrived and gave Ranieri bought Crespo, Veron, Duff and co. We only bought Lehman in the Summer. One season of a big splash from those teams lower than us wouldn't have been enough to top us.
So can you just put into one paragraph what you are saying. As you're going all over the place at the moment.