Your so far wrong with your first
It’s not willingness
They can because then are not normal
There is a reason so many big teams are anti clubs being owned by countries… it just doesn’t make the game fair and even relevant anymore
When a club can spend £50m on a player and then bin him.. and their next competitor would see that as double their record fee… the game is fudged
And they can just waste more and more until it works
It’s not being smarter. It’s actually being more wasteful
You are right though, we can’t do that as we’re normal
That's what I said - they have the capacity to do it, we don't.
But we don't *need* the capacity to do it either - right now, to ever have a hope of winning everything, we need to get transfers 100% right every time for years. Impossible.
But maybe we get an al-Sawiris like at Villa who invests 500m into the club, or Kroenke at Arsenal with his 600m - then we maybe only need 80% of the buys to work out to have a chance, and can eat the loss on the rest.
Maybe with an FSG which invests a couple of hundred million and tanks the losses on the occasional bad purchase, maybe we only need 90% to be good.
Or Boehly comes in with his billions, maybe we only need 50% to be good.
There are gradients to allowing us to compete, but in each case, the boost from having an ambitious but relatively normal/non-state owner propels us to competing.
The only thing that's clear now is our present model gives us absolutely 0% chance, and the media know that - so betting on us to never win anything is a sure thing, because for the 22 grinding years under Levy and Lewis, it's almost entirely been the case.