The idea was not to directly target Brendan or a specific manager, but the general policies of the club for a good while now.
Refusing to push the boat out for the best player for a position, and wasting money on second or third best who more often than not doesn't work out.
Preaching to the choir here Ayrton, as you probably know (as I've be banging on about this for a long, long, time now... maybe too long).
Personally, I get frustrated when, as I see it, people still can't grasp the very simple concept that it's ram-shackle, incoherent, ill-advised, transfer policies which lead to poor transfers -
not any decisions made by managers.
It's an issue highlighted by some fans who have bought into the FSG 'We won't be held to ransom' school of thought. Then... watch on as we sign, at best, second or third choice players and hope they can deliver the same goods as top quality players.
Players who command top whack are able to do so for a reason - similarly, players who don't can't...
for a reason.
Some fans, thanks to some weird, inverted snobbery, business driven, dogma
and some very tasty PR, somehow believe that it's better to "make superstars" (still gives me a titter that) than it is to buy them. That, somehow, buying five £7m players who'll never contribute, is more 'noble' than buying one £35m quality player.
The fact is; we [FSG] have wasted more money (football wise anyhow
) sticking to this dogma than they would have otherwise.
I agree that it's a false economy. [for the football team, if not what Brendan called the "money men"]
