In a normal footballing world,I see nothing wrong with a manager buying British players,to eventually mould into a team.It's worked in the past for us,we've bought sometimes un-fashionable,English,Irish,Welsh and overseas players,that have come together to astound the footballing world.Our success is built on this.Unfortunately nowadays,instant success is demanded,so clubs are forced to "buy" instant success.This inevitably requires buying the best players available at the time from around the world,this requires financial backing.Regretably we have lost one of the few men who could do this on a "sell before buy" strategy.So now we are faced with a situation where our new manager is trying to compete with other "free-spending clubs",who have already spent more than double his total transfer budget on one single player,when arguably we need at least 4 players of the same quality to compete?I respect Roy the man,because who else would undertake this no win challenge?
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