True. You could look at that list and say the players that were successful, are the players Jose wanted, while the flops are his second choices, but again we don't know exactly which players he identified, although its likely to be the players that were successfull.
To begin with, Shevchenko was an Abramovich signing. By all accounts, Mourinho didn't want him and when he deliberately left him out of the side, the rift with Abramovich began. I expect many of the others were sold for either a profit, or no great loss.
Chelsea are in a different position, they can spend big, take a hit on a flop but still spend big thereafter, thats the norm with the big clubs. Di Maria signed for a british transfer record fee, flops, following season sold at a huge loss. I say a huge loss but to Utd with their spending power/income, they can make a loss on that player. Rival fans will take cheap shots (we all do it) and say "they pissed the money up the wall" but it doesn't impact their goals, while with us, we pissed money up the wall, the type of transfer budget we won't see again under ENIC (in one transfer window).
Which is why we can't hope to catch Chelsea by dealing in the transfer market - we won't be able to sign better players than them
But who expects us to ever catch Chelsea?. Chelsea can piss money up the wall......more money you have, more you spend in life, so there really shouldn't be any comparisons between the two clubs considering we operate completely different and have different targets. No one has an issue with the youth talent coming through, but that doesn't mean our overall transfer strategy is perfect to maximise our potential, and thats why some of us take issue with the current system.
The media are claiming that Berahino is putting in a transfer request to try and force a move to WHL. How they'd know this is open for discussion. Would anyone be against us signing him? There seems to be very little negativity towards this potential move. Very odd for us.
He cannot be any worse than LOLdado. Other than that, I can't say that he's been a player that has screamed "must get him!" at me.
As has been pointed out, we had 'Chelsea type' money a couple of years ago and pissed the vast majority of it away on overpriced, overhyped nonentities!
I don't think that this is particularly accurate, to be honest. Chelsea do it every year and double our wages, too. They also jumped in on a bunch of players that we'd negotiated with and gazumped the deals, supposedly. They also don't have to sell their best players. It's the difference between having to sell your house to a new property and being given a free house every year.
Well, we had around £100mill to spend. I'd call that pretty much Chelsea money. As has been pointed out, it's the type of money that we're unlikely to have available again - in the foreseeable future, anyway. We had it, and we blew it!..
West Brom have confirmed that they received a written transfer request from Berahino. They've turned it down and reiterated their original stance. No idea why they're being so public with this whole saga. Very strange.
Everyone who spends in the transfer market blows half of it in practice. Its barely possible to do anything else as you can only buy players by paying more than the selling club thinks they are worth and it is very hard to see how you could possibly know more about their value than they do.
Again, we overpaid for players who weren't worth half of what we paid for them. Still, nobody wants to own up to that!...
Any truth in this, I wonder!.. http://m.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/To...ystal-Palace/story-27665932-detail/story.html
My take on the article is to feel unnerved, because it's very rare to read an article on the Croydon Advertiser's site that doesn't have noted Croydonian mentalist Chris Wilcox ranting about masonic conspiracies in the comments section...
Don't entirely blame them for leaking everything, it's a clear ploy to squeeze every little penny possible out of the interested club while also making it look like they've done everything possible to keep the player. We done similar with Berba, Keane, Modric and Bale I think. Ultimately, the player always ends up going.
