£35M per season isn't massive by the top clubs' standards and when you think Ronaldo was sold for £80M in that period plus £8M for Heinze, £7M for Tosic, £6M for Foster & Pique, £4M for Berbatov & O'Shea, £3.5M for Campbell and various other £1-2M sales for younger players, the net spend is relatively modest and certainly dwarfed by Chelsea and City
You had 10 years of smashing Chelsea's wage bill and about 20-25 years of smashing City so I'd hazard a guess and say your spending has been no more or less than Chelsea/City since the inception of the PL.
City were playing Macclesfield FFS. Anyway, f*ck off, I'm not worried about finishing above Chelsea and City - no chance of that - I'm looking at Southampton and Everton - they keep winning!
I'm not; nothing is decided after 9 games, but you wouldn't put money on it, would you? That 5% (of the mental element required) that elevates the best above the rest just isn't there at present and I can't see it returning overnight.
Winning today was massive for you. Had you lost that was the title race over (realistically). Not convinced by Chelsea and think we may get found out tomorrow but then again Kompany might not play so we might get away with it. Without wanting to dismiss United, Arsenal, Liverpool etc tomorrow will tell us a lot about who the title favourites are. Hard to draw conclusions until 18-19 games have been played.
I hope you're right, but nobody recognises this Utd team as one that that could click into form as we always could under SAF, however much the players were maligned.
Its gonna take a miracle for us to get back in the race, see you winning tomorrow, and Arsenal beating Liverpool.
It's not that Utd couldn't get 70 points easily, but to win the title you need to be capable of a streak of 28/30 points once or twice per season. Can anyone see this team doing that? Last season we looked on course for 100 points with 10 games left - we'd need to win all 29 remaining games to do that this season!!
I hope you win tomorrow DL, if you do it means we are only two points behind one of the two top title favourits after nine games. I know it is clutching at straws a bit, but in my mind it is either us and City are ****ed or we are both in with a chance of the title
Romelu Lukaku has put in some powerful performances since joining Everton on loan from Chelsea - and the 20-year-old striker smashed up a video game controller after losing a game of FIFA 14 to team-mate Kevin Mirallas. (Source: Metro) Ohhhhh!
A pat on the back for those on here who tipped Southampton to do well this season. I was a bit idubious, but having watched them against Fulham yesterday, they are undoubtedly destined for a decent year. Granted Fulham were the victims of their own downfall to a certain extent, but that need not detract from an emphatic and impressive performance from Southampton. They have good players who are on top of their form and they have several young players getting better with every game. I was well impressed with them yesterday.
SC you know I'm not one to gloat but I'm top of the fantasy football league and tipped Southampton as surprise team of the season in HIAG'S pre season thread. Anyhow like I said, not one to gloat...
"What a **** set of results" Good results, in that it forces Spurs to have to be at their best. Perhaps a season-long state of fear is what is needed to get a CL slot, rather than the points gaps that have been blown two seasons running.
You could be on to something there... Remember the season we finished 4th and the run in we had! City, Chelsea and Arsenal.
Being on a knife-edge every week might be what is needed. And with the Europa involvement, more so, as most of those other teams amongst it with Spurs will have played their games on saturdays rather than sunday.
