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Originally Posted by GocartMozart
I'll have to disagree. They're spending money like I've never seen before. They've clearly taken a stance that is to fill every hole and gap in the team with players at their absolute pinacle of hype. Are they buying the league, probably not, but are they making the entire spending trend worse? Most definitely. What's a youth system worth if you don't bring any of the players up and don't give me the argument that Nani and Anderson are implants in the youth system. I'm talking about school boy age all the way up the rankings.
In the end i have to be fair, and if I hammer opposing teams for spending at these levels, then I have to treat United with the same harsh lens. This is unacceptable.
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Like never before?
Other than the year in which United splashed out money for Veron and Ruud (what was that 28 and 19 million respectively) when has United spent so much money in a summer transfer period?
These purchases to me are being bought against purchases next season and the season after. I really don't see United buying big anytime soon.
Secondly, United have bought players to either:
a. fill a need on the team in which they are deficient (Hargreaves)
and
b. to replace a player (s) when they eventually retire (Nani and Anderson).
Just because you have a youth system, doesn't mean it will bear fruit. Tons of United supporters have slag Richardson like no tomorrow. He was a highly rated from the academy,and yet due to under performances and fans impatience, he is more than likely to be sold. You can't have it both ways. In a utopia world, the youth system would always develop a class of '92 every single year. It just doesn't happen.
How are Nani and Anderson youth implants? They were starters for first division teams in Portugal?
Tottenham have shelled out in excess of 30 million pounds in transfers. United shelling out 20+ more isn't so bad. Considering where we finished in the league and cup competitions. The money is there.
My concern is that in the process of keeping up with the jones to be competitive in the league... how does that affect United's debt situation? Could some of this money been used to service the debt and reduce it quicker than the initial debt reduction plan.
I really don't see it as buying the league. Highest money spenders this transfer period? Thus far yes... where were we last year? and the year before?