- Jul 7, 2012
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We can joke about it all we like but let's bet a bit objective for a moment to pause for thought. If they'd finished 1 point above us instead of 1 point below us and we'd qualified for the Europa League instead of the Champions League, would we have been signing a £70m player ? Would Ndombele have signed for us? At the moment they've outspent us even though they were reported as having a so called 'miserly ' transfer budget. It remains to be seen whether this will be the case at the end of the transfer window and much will depend on whether we get our other deals over the line.
Yes it's arguable that they clearly need to strengthen their defence, but for a team that has qualified for the Europa League could we honestly say we would have matched their current buys if we'd been in their position ? Could we have even said we'd have signed Perez and Tilemans as Leicester have done and we'd failed to qualify for even the Europa League ? Just putting it out there....
Well they do have more money than us, despite Kronke apparantley not providing funds they haven't done too badly.
Not sure who we would have attracted if we didn't have CL, doesn't even bare thinking about tbh