Syn_13
Fly On, Little Wing
- Jul 17, 2008
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I don't think we spent badly in the summer. The players we brought in were probably the best we could get with our pulling power and financial limitations. I don't know how it works at the club but I've always thought that the final decision for transfers should be with the manager. Only he could truly say whether a player is going to fit his system or not. If he gave the thumbs up to all of those buys then AVB is culpable for not agreeing to get in the right players for the job, or that his tactical vision is flawed. If he had no say in the matter then Levy obviously has too much of a say for his own good and Baldini should've been working closer with the manager. His position is to bridge that gap between manager and board, not create an entirely new one.
The difference between our spending and City's isn't wisdom. They had the power, as a no-name club, to turn round and say to the biggest players in the world "we will pay you a king's ransom to play for us". They dangled carrots in the form of massive pay packets to players and, probably more importantly, to their agents too. It's the way football works nowadays, unfortunately. Teams like us who haven't got that kind of pulling power, nor the history of a team like United or Liverpool, just cannot compete with that financially. We need a good portion of skill, combined with a lot of luck to make that breakthrough. A manager with real vision or tactical nous, or getting hold of a collection of players that suddenly peak and break into form. Probably a bit of both, like the way Dortmund have come good in recent years.
If? IF?!
