I think that one of the problems is that the players we would all like to come here, don't want to come here. Therefore we are already buying from outside the very top tier of talent.
Let's take Markovic for example - we could have probably bought a player who would of had as much impact as he had last season for a mere fraction of the cost, but nobody would of been happy with that either.
If we were to splash the cash on one, more would follow. Elite players want to be alongside elite players because that gives them a chance for a trophy. That's why Suarez left.
Had we gone out and bought Costa, Fabregas, Kroos, Pedro, Otamendi, Mangala, Coentrao, and Cech*, instead of all the players we bought last summer and the summer prior to that, I guarantee you we'd have all those players in our starting lineup, as well as Suarez and Sterling still in our ranks, we'd be in CL footy, and we'd be making a title challenge at the minimum.
Unfortunately, FSG don't have the ambition to support that and Brendan is happily willing to agree with them on their lack of desire for true success. Therefore, we will continue to push forward with truly overpriced transfer prices for low wage, young, inexperienced players who have some small hope of becoming stars. We're not even getting the top tiers of the young potential stars either, which is pretty pathetic considering the fees.
There is certainly a disconnect between our ambitions as fans and the ambitions of our owners and management.
*The list is not exclusive and I'm not saying it had to be exactly those players, they're just representations of some of the quality that has been transferred over the past 3 years.
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