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.
Well I’m a Newcastle fan with years and years of suffering embedded in my soul, so I’ll take this any day. We aren’t doing this because of oil persay… We had a fat fuck of an owner who ran the club into the ground. We haven’t invested astronomical money or bought any prima donna overpriced players… Our best investment was Eddie Howe who at the time was the coach of a relegated team. You can hate the Saudis all you want, but at least respect that Eddie is doing this with team spirit and a group of players that weren’t anybody’s household name by any means
Average US “soccer” fans didn’t know those players but goodbye anyway