Dont get that about Ferguson..... Unless he became our manager in 1968, we hadn't won the title the year before.....
I was talking about the fact that before Ferguson came, the likes of Atkinson at United were spending some heavy dosh on players. See Robson British transfer record. I am clearly not talking about 1968. From Ferguson onwards it doesn't even need arguing.
Dammit, I didn't want to get involved in this again but that is a lie Ikki. Liverpool's net spend, as you admitted, was £39m. United's as you admit here, was £25m. £25m is not bigger than £39m. It just isn't.
What?
How can you, an intelligent member, possibly make that conclusion after reading the rest of my post? I am not arguing 25>39. I am clearly referring to the fact that United already had a quality squad - one that won the title - and added
another 25m whereas Liverpool were spending 39 on rebuilding almost an entire XI. Many of your purchases in that window were benchwarmers FFS. You guys won the title again and spent
another 33m net the next year.
People ignore the above when they say Benitez wasted money and then compare it to United's spending and see it isn't much different, or less and even argue United have better players.
Well, no ****, there's a reason why. That's why 25m for a team that doesn't need it is, "in several ways" a big purchase compared to a team that needs every quid of that 39.
It's kind of like this guy who arrives at Pizza Hut at 3:00pm, has 2 large pizzas to himself; then at 6:00pm this other guy comes in with his wife and 3 kids. From 6:00pm onwards the first guy has another pizza and a chocolate sundae and the family order 2 pizzas and 2 sundaes. Then you say...ah hah! The family ordered more food! Silly analogy, but you get the idea.
To be fair to Ikki, I don't think the two sentences were linked there - he was making two different points, one about United's traditional conveyor belt of talent going back many years, and one about the United squad at the time which had just won the title.
Though it's not as though Liverpool haven't traditionally had good players coming through either...
Yes, but through the Souness and Evans era those resources were wasted. Souness, especially, spent the most and bought the worst and got the worst results. By the time Benitez came Liverpool no longer had the same financial muscle and the quality players of yesteryear had gone or retired.
Ferguson however has had 2 decades of continuity. He spent large, had enough time to bring in youth, won titles, incrementally improved his squad spending large again, and therefore he has much less to fix.
