- Oct 25, 2004
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Let's see where those teams are at the end of the season.I don't get it. The newly promoted teams are spending gazillions and Palace are rejecting 30m bids for players that wouldn't get on our reserves' bench.
We've spent jack shit in five years. That's great, I'm proud of it and proud of where we are despite that. And when I remember that we completely wasted 100s of millions on completely useless players that never done anything for us, the fact we were competing for the league despute the above, it's even more remarkable.
However, every other team is able to spend, we have a massive new TV deal, we have the ECL, and we have cash on hand. After last season's accomplishments we've purchased two players that are certainly not guaranteed first teamers. In fact, both will probably spend more time on the bench than on the pitch.
The gaps in the first team are obvious, the lack of any will to plug them is even more obvious. All around us teams are, on paper, improving their first 11s. We're not.