Thanks the Lord with every post you write that you havent been in charge of Utd for any length of time (many of the titles wouldnt be in Utd's name if you had)
Utd may well be able to attract better /faster / more frequent scorers however to major contributing factors
1) No one knows for sure how any player from another league is going cope with the EPL (and factor in £££ of players Utd are interested in and this risk magnifies)
2) Even London (with arguably less successful clubs in the last two decades) is more attractive to majority of over-seas players than Manchester,without even comparing Barcelona, Madrid or even Munich/Paris into the equation
and to an extent....
3) SAF himself probably puts a lot of players off, just from his age /unknown retirement potentially around the corner
(Im not suggesting Modric is definitely the key, but in one sense Utd have always had one hand tied behind their back because of their location, and City get over this by offering the obscene wages to every senior player)
Seriously, can you point out where anything you said has anything to do with what I said? I mean, at all.
Lets start with number 2, London is more attractive to oversea's players than Manchester.
Firstly, no, secondly, Ronaldo had an offer from Arsenal, and chose Utd, as did RVN, and a bunch of other players, so you're completely wrong, more wrong, and ludicrously wrong. Utd, compared to everyone else in the UK till Chelsea came along, offered obscene wages, they are CHAMPIONS, being a team that has a shot at a title and the money that goes along with being winners means Utd have no problem attracting players.
Lets move on to, where did I say foreign player, I didn't. Cabaye has more potential than Modric and would cost a damn site less than 40mil, we know he can be class in this league, and he's only going to improve from where he is now.
Going for someone you know really isn't good enough, because you don't know if someone else might fail, is laughably daft.... and hilariously you'll notice this is something Fergie has never, ever been afraid to do, which suggests Fergie would agree with me here. Did he not get Veron, was it because he was scared he might not adapt, what about Anderson, or Djemba Djemba, or Bebe, etc, etc. Managers who are scared of the potential of failure and so always take the safe route..... fail, every time.
Offering a huge contract, and a huge fee for a player you KNOW isn't as good as you need, is beyond stupid. Likewise, Fergie has never had an issue with buying young players, you don't HAVE to spend 30mil on whoever the latest "in" foreign star is, you can simply buy whoever is GOOD, get a great deal, and get a great player.
Berbatov is absolutely, unquestionably, brilliant, yet Utd fans seem to think he's **** and he's deemed a failure.... yet you think buying another expensive player from the same team somehow negates the risk of a player from another league doing badly, because if you buy an established EPL player..... he'll definitely live up to the price? Seriously, can you really not see how every single part of your post is utterly flawed on every single level.
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