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From our current ITK looks like the club have a great handle on project managing the construction of the stadium, but have forgotten about getting players that 61,000 people would actually pay to watch in three years time...
I can fully understand not spending circa 20m on the names mentioned, apart from Berahino at a pinch, but how have we not turned up anyone else decent if the MS money was available?
It seems that we have gone back to 2006 era spending/transfers. Buying young talent and making the most of them. Which i don't mind.
The young talent we bring in now, maybe that good in three years time. When we hit the CL our biggest known players were VDV, and Gallas. Smart buys at a cheap price. Bale and Modric were young players that we brought in for their potential. Even Berbatov was a risk. The rest of the side wasn't exactly glamourous. But they were the right players for what Harry wanted.
It seems we kind of lost our way in that regard, and Levy brought this up a couple of weeks ago with the end of the season column and stadium plans. Bringing in mitchell, poch, stadium, young talent, it seems that Levy has a plan again. Just hope we can stick to it. But it feels right.
And who knows, we may get a cheap bargain ala VDV again if it is right for us.
Anway digressing...