Honestly, how???

Can anyone explain to me how other teams are able to spend tens of millions on players and even despite the AWB sale we are not even close to making any sort of marquee signing or someone to a least boost the team, or replace the player we have just sold for a princely sum?

This isn't a sarcastic post, it's a genuine question. Even Southampton have spent about £40million on strikers already.

Surely it isn't rocket science in that you identify gaps in your team, plan ahead for recruitment and then begin negotiating once the window opens. I don't accept the fact we have no money and we got rid of a load of dead wood last season

Genuinely boggles the mind!!! Or am I supposed to wait til the last day of the transfer window when we spend £100 million on a top class striker, right back, winger and central defender?

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

How do you know?

Financial fair play blah blah ZZZZZ snore whistle , sane ol excuses for a tight arse board . zzzzzzz

oh yeah ,fcuk off brighton.

I stopped reading at ‘marquee signing.’

There is a right back coming in. Further than that I assume we’re trying to make the limited money stretch further.

And Southampton are in a different stage of the spend-conserve cycle that all Prem clubs in the bottom half experience. West Ham have gone through it as well. Happens everywhere but the real underlying reasons are the poor scouting and buying players for £25-30 mil and paying several players in the squad £100-130k per week. Our wage bill is astronomical.

COYP

Stupidest comment ive seen in a while tbh, do you want to end up in administration again?

Edited by RyWa (10 Jul 2019 11.14am)

I understand that there are FFP rules, that we are operating at a loss and that players are on high wages, or more I acknowledge these things as oppose to understand them however is this not something all clubs have to contend with?

It just seems to me that we are always fishing around the bargain bucket for scraps whereas other sides, such as your southamptons, watfords, west hams, leicester etc. always seem to have money to spend on what I would deem 'marquee signings'. In fact I would consider any striker £20mil above as a marquee signing and we've been crying out for that for years. Batshuayi almost seems like a cruel tease now.

Luka was a snap, Max was on a free and apart from Benteke and Sakho I cannot remember getting excited about any of our signings going back a while. I'm not sure I buy in to the 'spend and conserve' theory, could be wrong but at the risk of keyboard warriors that sounds made up to me.

To be clear, it's not really a moan as I expect us to do the bare minimum in the hope of staying up, which we have done. 7 years may seem like a long time but it really isn't and I do not expect the club to turn round and say we are now going to challenge for Europe, I suppose it is just that the AWB money, plus lack of any real activity since BFS has me wondering.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!