Chelsea gaffer Conte said: “This season it’s very important to understand that it’s not always about who spends more money who wins.”
“This season isn’t the only season both Manchester clubs have spent a lot of money. Look at the past. It’s right for them to do this, to reinforce their teams, if they think this is the right way to win the title.(But) every single club decides their own strategy.”
Only the Flat Earthers in Spurs’ support could read this and nod sagely.
The right response from a balanced human being is to this is to fall over laughing.
What pile of hypocritical sh*te.
Chelsea paid £31m for N’Golo Kante.
Chelsea paid £32m for Willian.
Chelsea paid £35m for Hazard.
Chelsea paid £33m for Batshuayi.
Chelsea paid £30m for Luiz.
Chelsea paid £32m for Costa.
Chelsea paid £20m for Alonso.
Chelsea paid £28m for Fabregas.
Chelsea paid £26m for Cuadrado.
Thank goodness for Spaniel Levy. You don’t see Spurs flushing countless tens of millions down the can, oh no!
The grim reality is that this is a money game now. It has been since 1992. Even the sides getting relegated are so heavily cosseted with parachute cash it’s not really the end of the world.
You want to compete, you need to spend. It’s not up for debate.
In football as in life, there are no guarantees. If you’d invested in Manchester United and Manchester City this season, you’d be seething right now. But guess what, nobody cares. Go home, hold your wife and you kids. Bore them about it.
Here on the Grown Ups Table there is no spare warmth of sentiment. It’s glory or the dustbin. If you’re not basking in glory, then you’re out with the rubbish.
Getting to a semi final and losing yet again is as important, as memorable, as much of an achievement as coming back from the Gents looking like someone just threw a cup of water in your lap.
Spending MUST be combined with the intelligence to buy well.
Spurs were in for Willian. Spurs were in for Hazard.
Nearly schmerely.
I don’t want to hear about the wages, by the way. Everybody has to get paid. Everybody has to get paid the market rate.
You think Spurs players are paid in Chick King vouchers? Given that most of this mob have blank CVs the average Tottenham player is about as deserving of their compensation as a Lotto winner.
Conte was having a massive laugh with his ‘understand that it’s not always about who spends more money who wins.’ line.
What terrifies me is that the one time Levy did spend, he spent with all the finesse of a Lotto winner. It’s the heady cocktail of being a cheapskate and being a poor buyer that kills me about Levy every bloody season.
But at least we haven’t done a Leeds!
Nor has anyone else other than Leeds, and that was over a decade ago!
Chelsea will win the league and will be surprised if they don’t do the double.
While that’s happening, you can tell your friends (any of them that are still listening to you) how Wembley is a perfect fit as a temporary home for a club with such huge aspirations, and how many more seats the New Destination© will have than the Emptycrates.
We’re building something special!
I’m planning on being dead within the next 30-40 years, so I’m not quite sure how I’ll be able to get the updates after then.
I keep telling you to wake up, but clearly some comas are deeper than others.
