Did they **** spend £180m They spent about £20m net the season you came up (which is small beer given the massive hike in revenues), and not much more net the following summer.
Putting less than £50m into a Championship sides squad and it then winning the Premier league wasn't fortuitous from the owners perspective? Go give your head a ****ing wobble
You seem to be struggling to understand the concept of 'from the owners perspective'..... Any owner who took a Championship squad and only stuck in £50m for players and won the league, would consider it to be a right ****ing result
The owners stated aim was to challenge for Europe over a 5 year period from our initial promotion. They over delivered in that respect. "Many people" tipping us for relegation is irrelevant. Very few Leicester fans did so - because we were actually the "in form" team over the last 9 games of the previous season, even beating Chelsea's points haul over those last 9 games - so we had every reason to think we had 'acclimatised' and would do better than in our first season. That some people felt that Ranieri's tenure over the ageing Greek bnational team was some form of indication over how he would manage a league club says more about the lack of any real footballing knowledge in such critics to me. I was optimistic about his appointment, if not 'exactly blown away'. You only had to look at his club management record to support that. He had way more success than failure and for a club of our stature it was good to appoint someone who had come extremely close to winning titles in England, Italy and France and had also been credited with transforming the fortunes of Valencia in Spain. Maybe the moons did align ... but it was no fluke that we won an EPL title by a ten point margin - we were that much better than the nearest team to us, and that despirte all the vast wealth of those around us too - how much had van Gaal spent on that United squad? The squad was not, IMHO, bang average. Kante, Mahrez and arguably Vardy were the best players in their position in that season - shouts too for Schmeichel and Robert Huth. I Vardyhad taken our pebalties all season he would have won the Golden boot (one goal behind Harry Kane) which would have been a clean sweep of every award. That level of acheivement could only ever be 'bang average' where an element of the green eyed monster exists .... would you say that Dimitri Payet was 'bang average' too? same season?
Of course they'll be pleased. I don't understand what you're getting at though. Why is it luck? We build our success of thorough scouting and recruitment. We've not just put £50m into a fruit machine and hit the jackpot.
I don't disagree with that at all Tobes - it was an incredible success - but the level of investment under them has grown steadily season by season and they have basically backed whatever the scouting team / manager have asked for without andy quibbling or dissonance...
So we didn't challenge for a European place earlier than the 5 year plan? ... we did... welcome to succesful dellivery ahead of planned schedule
As League Champions last season they only invested a little over £21m net in order to put together a CL squad though. Personally, whilst I don't see them as being bad owners, I think they've been as lucky as ****.
Do you wait behind at the end and clap them with your plastic stick thing as they get in the helicopter mate?
