Thats just short-sighted and foolish if you seriously believe the reason we have not won a title is due to a resistance to spend outlandish money. Teams like Leicester, West Ham and Stoke have limited financial clout theyre all having good seasons fighting to be contenders for the European positions. Barcelona, arguably the greatest side of all time have had a nucleus of Spanish players within their side whom all grew up together in the youth academy and were schooled a style of football to execute on the pitch which generated sustainable success without having to spend £50 million on average like Sterling. Bayern Munich are the same to a lesser extent, guys like Schweinsteiger, Lahm and Muller were all players who broke into the side from the academy and went on to become integral to the teams future triumphs.Look at United and Liverpool, spent ridiculous amounts of money in the lat 2 seasons and what have they got to show for it? Where is the cohesiveness and playing style continuity within those 2 sides? After all they've spent its ridiculous and I'll tell you what such an approach will see teams more likely to become the next Leeds than the next Barcelona.
Yes we have never truly replaced Viera but its not a prerequisite for a team to have an all action midfielder in the side to win trophies just a midfielder who holds and for other players to work hard and to be quite honest I doubt we will see a player of Vieras quality for a long long time because he was sensational!
