speedy wrote:
mdgoonah41 wrote:
i dont think its fair to say we'd need to spend a billion pounds on a team capable of defending and limiting chances for our opponents. torreira cost £25m and he could start for any team in england. hes been amazing when it comes to tackles, interceptions and ball recoveries. hes better in that role than fernandinho. we need more of that quality, and it doesnt have to cost £100m per player to do it, imo.
We might get it done cheaper but that's what it cost them and they're pretty well run.
I think they're just doing it the blunt way because they can. Without any tangible UEFA regulations on their spendings they've brute-forced it. Look at this breakdown from the beginning of the year over league points per game plotted against net transfer outlays - they're so far down in the diagram that the Y axis is almost twice as long as it would've been without them:
Not even PSG are in the same stratosphere.
