Forget about some of the wealthiest clubs in the world? Recent titles have been won by United, City, and Chelsea. United have spent a decent amount but not close to that of Chelsea abd City. They payed 30m roughly for van Persie but we have shown that we are willing to spend just as much under FSG. Not only that but they did a lot of their big spending from the Ronaldo money.
Completely disagree on United, try and tell me they weren't spending huge amounts of money before the Ronaldo deal, in fact they have spent less since that deal given the change in their financial circumstances.
Just a few of the top of my head (approx) Rooney £30million, Ferdinand £30 million, Veron £27 million, Carrick £20 million, Berbatov £30 million, 30 million combined for Nani and Anderson, Van Nistelroy £20 million not to mention the 20 million they spunked on De Gea and the 24 million they spent on 30 year old ,Van Persie.
Most of those deals were pre Ronaldo so you can't pretend united haven't been spending massive amounts of money. 30 million for a centre-half was unheard of back then and the deals for Rooney, Veron and Berbatov were all huge at the time.
Arsenal are the only team to win the Premier League without spending a fortune and ill hasten to add that they have not been able to do it since the money arrived at City and Chelsea.
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