Burnwinter Massive amount of fee manipulation in this window. The bad actors have realised the league can't regulate them and are going all out.
Yep, that's exactly what it is.
We've never operated like those other clubs do and we never will. We were on a budget last summer to get our business done and we've been on one this season too. Right now fans are looking at the trolley dash and feeling left out, but the signings we've made have strengthened us.
I think we should have kept Trossard, and I think we should have kept him regardless of who came in. He's extremely underrated and will prove to be a genuine loss I fear. The rest of the players we've sold are neither here nor there but their fees ensure we're well within UEFA limits again.
People accuse Berta of having a poor window but he managed to get rid of Nelson, Vieira and Jesus in the same week - and we actually got paid for two of them. That's insanely good business. We got rid of some of our biggest wage drains and cleared the squad for future business in January and/or next summer, and we did it without selling any key players.
Sometimes the opportunities on the market aren't right and you gotta have the guts to back a championship-winning team instead of throwing hundreds of million around on irrelevant players if that's the case - look at Liverpool last summer for reference, who genuinely would have been better off not signing anyone at all.
Our title defense was always going to come down to whether we'll get as much out of the key players we had last season, and I think the signings we've made have been an attempt to ensure that. I have zero worries about City who now have a new starting midfield, somehow a little worse than their previous one despite spending 400 million on it, and also a new manager who's a lot worse than their previous one. Chelsea are a stock market, Liverpool are a joke, and United are irrelevant to anyone outside Manchester. I say we came out well on top this summer too.
