Money isn’t alway the answer, we found this out last season, in fact I’d prefer success without doing it the City or Chelsea way. It can be done, Utd did it, Arsenal did it, Leicester dit it. You need strong structures, coaches and scouts and absolute patience and loyalty we’re talking three to five years.
We had a better team under Moyes and didn’t have any money. It’s more then possible. We have a tradition of developing players, but a poor tradition of keeping the best of them. We need to be Arsenal signing players before they are stars, having strong youth teams and sprinkling with high quality highly placed stars. That unfortunately is incremental.
A massive gaff was made last summer, this season is running the anti virus for me, a step forward will be the year after, we blew the boom last year and just highlighted the need for the combined approach I mention above, if you rely solely on making signings, signing potential or developing your players it fails. It has to be a combo of all.
Arsenal should be our model in my opinion. Ironically I’m optimistic that Arsenal and Chelsea will decline now and they should be our aim.