[GocartMozart]

To your first point, I didn't say I believed United are buying the league, and when I said we've spent money like never before, that's true. With Tevez this will be a summer transfer record.

To your second point, just because you fill a need, doesn't mean you aren't buying the league.

Finally to your constant inclusion of Richardson as an example, really we both know better. What you've done there is take your bitterness over Richardson and weave it against my points, placing me on a polar opposite of whatever theories you're putting together. I'm having it both ways? The concept that I'm being hypocritical by slagging Richardson and at the same time complaining that we don't give our youth enough time is a bit rediculous. The two are mutually exclusive. Johny Evans comes in for 10 minutes against Everton and not only does he score, but he looks competent which is the key. That's the difference and it has nothing to do with hypocracy. Richardson has been given enough chance to at least show something/anything and still failed. While, I see very few other players from the academy making it to the bench. My belief that our youth system isn't getting enough top level exposure, and my distaste for Richardson are mutually exclusive and at the very least anything but hypocritical.

Back to my point and away from the Richardson digression - in fact, if the youth system isn't producing, shouldn't the money go towards it, rather than Nani or Tevez? As far as whether it is bearing fruit, I'll point to Johny Evans as a perfect example.

Finally, we are on the same page as far as the debts incurred by the Glazers and that was one of the first things I thought about when I started thinking about these transfers. What's the opportunity cost of buying these players, both in the form of our youth ranks and our debts...