Of course it stacks up when every bit of evidence since their arrival supports the idea they aren't interested in competing in the transfer market with the likes of Barca/Madrid/City/Bayern/Chelsea whom we are supposed to be competing with on the pitch. Yes a clubs success will help them make money but if you told the Glazers they could spend £150m and win the league or spend £75m finish top 4 and pocket the other £75m for themselves we're finishing top 4. People who are set on defending the "business" model is all good and well but that comes at a cost because we compete vs teams who have owners that don't get involved for profit and actually cost themselves huge amounts of money simply for success. You only need to look across the pond at what the Glazer's have done with their other sports franchise to see how fecked we are long term with them as owners.
Shaw and Herrera should have been signed last summer and their respective ages makes it a smart investment rather than sign of owners being willing to splash money for a championship winning team. Incredible to think of how far we've fallen that people are actually giving them credit for making these signings. They're parasites on United and I don't know how long or what it'll take for the some fans to realise it.
What top class players have we targeted that hasn't come off? Bidding pennies for Fabregas made us look like fools and every time season tickets need renewed Woodward gives an interview talking about being willing to break world records or leak rumours of bringing Ronaldo back neither happen of course.
You're making assumptions not based on fact. I obviously dont know what the Glzaer's think, and neither do you - but spending £30 million on a teenage defender is a statement of intent. You can talk about sell on values all you like, that only comes off if and when a player actually turns out to be any good.
The point I'm making is that whilst they clearly havent wanted to compete with the bigger clubs in terms of transfers in the past - times have changed and its patently obvious that with all the money in football, you need to spend big in order to be succesful. They dont have Fergie anymore, succeeding despite being hamstrung in the transfer market. To me the noise from the club is that they can, when required compete for the big players.
You can refer to the owners of clubs who are not in it for the profit - I assume you're referring to the likes of Chelsea and City. Whilst I have no problem with how they do things I'm happier with the way United go about things. Its more sensible long term and ensures that the club has a solid and stable future. The fact that we're so far ahead in terms of finances the future we can compete with the top clubs.
I'm no Glazer apologist, and I understand why people dont like them. At the end of the day, how much is invested in the future will show how serious they are. The signs so far are encouraging in terms of the money that has been spent on these particular players without question and hopefully others follow soon.
But here, in this instance to blame the lack of top class signings solely on the Glazers position in the past is, for me lazy and naive. The reality is that we've got a manager who has very particular ideals about what, and who he wants and has only been in the job a matter of weeks. We're also trying to rebuild from a position of relative weakness (in comparison recent seasons at least) in terms of attracting players.
Both of these are as likely as reasons why the rebuild has slowed as suggesting its down to the Glazers not allowing the club to spend.
they've just heard the rumour too.
