Chelski and citeh are killing football.
Because Barca and Real Madrid (and even Man Utd) don't pay mega money for players either eh!
As for killing football, Chelsea and then Man City have made the league more competetive, with all of the top four or five capable of taking points off each other.
If not for those two clubs it would be total Man Utd domination at the moment. Arsenal fans are more upset than most because they are the worst affected because of their spendthrift club and would have preferred it if the title was between Man Utd and Arsenal every season and the Premier LEague was less competetive, as for most of the early history of the Premier League (with the exception of the one season Blackburn won it).
Don't get me wrong, I admire Arsenal in many ways but the fact that the likes of Birmingham and Portsmouth have won trophies in the time since Arsenal won one shows how Arsenal have fallen behind.
I'm not a fan of the huge transfer fees we pay. I was annoyed when we paid £50 million for Torres, which I thought was ridiculous. We had started to move away from that, which would have done us good in the long run. he Torres signing signalled to clubs and agents that we were willing to be blackmailed over transfers. City's emergence and the failure of our board to allow a manager to properly rebuild the team has lead to the necessity for us to take drastic action to rebuild now. At least we have invested in quite a few decent young players who, hopefully, will reduce the necessity to spend millions upon millions every season, with just the odd tweak here or there and only two or three players needing replacing.
Fortunately the CL win, increased merchandising and the guaranteed income from reaching the CL next season should pay for the bulk of this summer's transfers.
One thing the club aren't going to be able to do under the fair play rules is waste £16 or so million a season on the sacking of managers, when that money should be invested in the team.
Mouinho, Grant, Scolari, Ancelotti and AVB probably account for at least £60 million lost over the past few years. Money that Man Utd and Arsenal by having stability in their management structure have saved.
