This guy replying to the fool Kev Friend of Sad Cafe has it exactly right!
Yesterday at 16:42
Kev FriendNew Member
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Ya that sounds about right but the market has exploded since. SAF's most expensive signs were Berbatov and Rio? Probably the equivalent to £80m players now a days. Of course with PSG and City taking the piss in recent seasons, that £80 is probably £100m plus £50m bonuses.
Rio is a hell of a lot more than that in todays money. Berbatov probably considerably more too.
Utd were happily outspending everyone for years before Chelsea came along and changed things. When Veron and Van Nistelrooy came in for, what £47m combined, when no one else in the league was spending, or even had the capacity to spend, anywhere near that kind of money, I don't recall Utd fans coming forward to complain about how this gave them an unfair advantage.
I support a low-level Scottish football team and have sympathy for Utd but this as an excuse is completely ridiculous, petty, embarrassing, and needs to stop.