Quote Originally Posted by AKBapologist View Post
Our second string squad isn't good enough, we're unable to buy the type of talent we used to be able to buy (bergkamp would be a +40mill player in this market). We are just not competitive in a financial sense, and that's one of the main things that has changed in recent times. Your blinkered if you feel otherwise.
Bergkamp would have never cost 40 million, when we picked him up he'd just had an unsuccessful spell at Inter.

You can buy quality, they might not be dirt cheap, but they don't cost 40 million either.