Negative net spend? Are you serious? Yes, if measured over one season he's a genius in the transfer market. But then look at his total transfer record and he's spent 1x10^39 billion quid. Easy to have a net spend season when you are getting rid of shit the club has already blown a fortune on. He deserves no credit at all for his transfer record. A monkey could match him given unlimited funds and a string of feeder clubs in which to dump purchases he'll never use.

Getting his pubbers to perform as a team, well I accept that. He's one of the best in the business at organising his thugs and cheats so they can snuff out any football the opposition might try to play. Then he has his battering ram up top to barge it into the net on the break. Sprinkle in reffing decisions that never ever even up and it's a formidable set up. A club with one purpose - to buy success and do it without the slightest trace of style.