Chelsea spent way way more than us on higher profile players and have regressed. It’s not solely about spending money. Question… How many of our newly acquired players since the takeover had you honestly heard about before we bought them? We have overall been very frugal, we haven’t broken the 100 million mark as many teams have. Isak is by far our record signing at 70 million, all the others are way less. And many of our key players now are players that Howe found there and re-invented. We also suffer from price gouging when clubs see us coming and if they go too far with that our negociation team walks. It’s easy for somebody to use the crutch of saying we have big oil money while ignoring the serious restraints of financial fair play… Instead of admitting we out played or out coached them.
I only tangentially pay attention to English soccer so honestly from watching the last handful of seasons of Champions League and Europa League and a bit of FIFA, myself and most people outside of England have heard of every single transfer Newcastle have gotten. Hate to break it to you but Newcastle weren’t the only ones to know about Tonali, Bruno, and Botman but teams like Brighton, Villa, Crystal Palace, etc wouldn’t have been able to buy that combo of players not even including Gordon, Livramento and Barnes.
They have done a good job of not bending over or just going for players like Neymar and coaches like Ancellotti but they are still MUCH closer to the tier of Chelsea/ManCity/PSG than Brighton or even Nottingham who keep buying any player that pops into their minds.
I call bullshit, the fact that you even call it soccer makes me not give credence to what you say lol,. But anyway, we’ll be laughing all the way to trophies and I actually don’t give a fuck what you think.
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Chelsea spent way way more than us on higher profile players and have regressed. It’s not solely about spending money. Question… How many of our newly acquired players since the takeover had you honestly heard about before we bought them? We have overall been very frugal, we haven’t broken the 100 million mark as many teams have. Isak is by far our record signing at 70 million, all the others are way less. And many of our key players now are players that Howe found there and re-invented. We also suffer from price gouging when clubs see us coming and if they go too far with that our negociation team walks. It’s easy for somebody to use the crutch of saying we have big oil money while ignoring the serious restraints of financial fair play… Instead of admitting we out played or out coached them.
I only tangentially pay attention to English soccer so honestly from watching the last handful of seasons of Champions League and Europa League and a bit of FIFA, myself and most people outside of England have heard of every single transfer Newcastle have gotten. Hate to break it to you but Newcastle weren’t the only ones to know about Tonali, Bruno, and Botman but teams like Brighton, Villa, Crystal Palace, etc wouldn’t have been able to buy that combo of players not even including Gordon, Livramento and Barnes.
They have done a good job of not bending over or just going for players like Neymar and coaches like Ancellotti but they are still MUCH closer to the tier of Chelsea/ManCity/PSG than Brighton or even Nottingham who keep buying any player that pops into their minds.
Average US “soccer” fans didn’t know those players but goodbye anyway
I call bullshit, the fact that you even call it soccer makes me not give credence to what you say lol,. But anyway, we’ll be laughing all the way to trophies and I actually don’t give a fuck what you think.