Hoopsontoast
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so just how much money do the gazillions of fans that United have contribute?
Do you really think that the shirts you see being worn in the Far East are genuine
United branded products? They will be rip offs like you buy in any UK street market.
As for Tottenham ”earning “ some right. Outside of London Spurs are are considered an utter irrelevance of a joke club. All fur coat and no nickers. A fancy new stadium but a crap team playing in it. What have they won? Arsenal have not been significant for several years now and despite spending more on individual players than City ever have United’s catastrophic club management means they will not be at the top table as long as they keep their current structure. Liverpool too have paid more for individual players than City ever have, flared like a shooting star momentarily then faded out of view.
Despite spending repeated record transfers it took Ferguson longer than Pep has been at City to win the the European cup. Considering the way they hoovered up any talent for decades and spent fortunes on the way his two champions league wins were a poor return.
City don't spend more than ~£60m on a player but they just buy lots of them in the £50-£60m range. I think United have only had 5 transfers over £50m, and two of those, Di Maria and Lukaku they pretty much made the money back when sold, although I believe Inter Milan still owe a large chunk of that £75m fee still.
Just the two CL trophies in that period is poor, although having 3 CL finals in the space of 4-years, loosing to the best Barcelona team in years, twice, is not to be sniffed at.
Also, as to not being at the top table, being 2nd in the League, and 3rd the year before, I'm not sure what else other than actually winning it you can do? They have also revised the scouting/procurement structure so it will be interesting to see how this changes after the summer transfer window.
Uniteds lack of Director of Football position, or any real structure has really not helped the scatter gun approach to buying players, especially when you work under very different managers (Moyes, Van Gaal, Jose and Ole) with each one having a different philosphy. You spend the next 2-3 years getting those no longer required players off the books.
This is something Man City got right, early on with their recruitment.