Like I said the other day, we need change for change’s sake.

[SWv2]

No, it's a fair point. Who else is doing better with our sort of spending?

Perhaps this needs to be qualified by asking why our sort of spending is our sort of spending.

[redgunamo]

Perhaps this needs to be qualified by asking why our sort of spending is our sort of spending.

Tottenham

[World's End Stella]

Perhaps this needs to be qualified by asking why our sort of spending is our sort of spending.

Yes, that is the salient point, I think. The question isn't whether someone else could do better with our level of spending, it's whether someone else could do better full stop, even if it involved spending more.

And then we get back to the whole why did we build the stadium etc etc

BTW I saw a surprising stat the other day. Chelsea have actually generated a profit in player sales/acquisitions over the past 4 or 5 years or something like that. Partly because of the Chinese, I think, but it surprised me nonetheless.

So you can add Chelsea to the list of teams doing better than us with similar spending patterns. Plus Liverpool as well possibly.