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Originally Posted by Barnet Flame
Man U have had the capacity in the past to make mistakes in the transfer market. Having become saddled with debt, that capacity has been greatly reduced hence they have upped their game and are far more effective in the market.
Your first point about Arsenal is wrong, and your second point would carry more weight if you werent always looking up at the team.
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I dono that they are more effective to be honest, take out Hernandez and I can't think of one good buy in the past few seasons
they got fleeced on Berba, he is a good player but he wasn't worth anything near 32m
Barthez, Veron, Forlan, Saha, Kleberson
were all terrible
about Arsenal
who have the bought in the past few years that was 'worth it'
Vermaelan is a solid player but he is injured all the time, Chamkah (france) has 7 goals in 28 games this year, Squillaci (france) is terrible, Koscielny (france) hasn't been worth his transfer fee so far
I'll give credit where credit is due, their youth system and training program is the best in the country and Ramsey especially is going to be an absolute stud, but he has been terrible in the transfer market the past two seasons (he had a good 2008 with Nasri (also french), but at 16m he wasn't really a steal). If he had been at least decent the past few seasons and strengthened the teams weaknesses they could have won the title, this year was I think their chance because City are only going to spend more, United will spend a ton this summer as well, and Chelsea/Liverpool/Spurs had bad seasons in the league