Since the Glazers tookover they hav ebecome one of the lowest nett spending teams in the Premier league.
compare that to when Fergie would regularly find value in the market (his favourite new phrase) and pay over the odds for Veron, Camel lip, Berbaflop, Shrek,and others..Go back further when he paid 2.5 million for Pallister that was a record for a defender. He had always spent big.
So what has stopped it.??..........they are skint thats what
Edit; I like Kismet's point about us being owned by a bunch of Arabs, completely disrespectful from the press