January Window

[Nineteenx]

Which ever way you see it, it strikes me as being very odd that they've gone from being penny pinchers to blowing their load in a single window.

It seems more likely an over confidence in Edwards & Hughes preferring to give Edwards too much credit for Jurgen his set up and his players development, performance & achievements

And maybe a touch of wanting their desired policy of sporting director and assistant identifying the players and buying them for the manager to a model put in place by a big successful spend employing it, which has spectacularly backfired

I’m quite sure Arteta and Guardiola get the players they want

If you look at 3 big spending clubs City and Arsenal are fairing better than Chelsea the former two have the manager picking who he wants

With Arsenal I think injuries and bottling it have prevented them winning a title so far but there’s no denying letting the manager pick the players they and city have both built phenomenal squads with incredible strength in depth

I think either Jurgen thry didn’t want to back him with the money because he’d proved able to do it on a shoestring and him being even more successful in that model by being backed would be at odds with their preferred model

[CCTV]

Fun fact from 19/20 to today, 7 seasons including this one, the top4 big net spenders in the PL are:

1) Manu 1,003 million net
2) Arsenal 947 million net
3) Chelsea 847 million net
4) Spurs 834 million net

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/einnahmenausgaben/wettbewerb/GB1/plus/0?ids=a&sa=&saison_id=2019&saison_id_bis=2025&nat= &pos=&altersklasse=&w_s=&leihe=&intern=0