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[Purple & Green]

I found this quite interesting:

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[Doc Shrink]

That’s pretty cool.

If you check the dates as they change, not once does Hibs appear during Petrie’s reign.

Case closed.

 

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I found this quite interesting:

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You can see the rise of Chelsea and City and the correlation with the money thrown at them. This season the top 3 spenders City, Chelsea and Man U. Wonder what value for money 2 of those will perceive they've got...

Interesting appearance from Blackburn and the spending of Spurs was bigger than you'd possibly imagine. Can also see the impact of Fergie's golden generation demise...as they disappear the spending goes up.

Thanks for that, B

 

[stairways_second_coming]

Newcastle in it for a bit and not even an fa cup, also note ebt rangers

 

[Greenmachine]

Newcastle in it for a bit and not even an fa cup, also note ebt rangers

Newcastle are the best example ever of a massively supported club who continually fail. When was the last time they won anything ? They must spend shitloads and yet are a yo-yo team in England's top two leagues. Biggest problem both they and Sunderland have is that the top players in the world don't want to live in the north east of England.
Man Utd's best team since the mid 60's came about through massive investment in youth development and having the good luck to have the greatest manager of all time at the helm at the same time. As soon as that era was over and Fergie was gone and they started spending massively on foreign players they have been much less successful. Clubs like Man City and Chelsea were also- rans for decades then they are taken over by billionaires and start to have success. Chelsea are in a bit of decline at the moment whereas City go from strength to strength. Difference is City have a world class Head Coach as well as unlimited money...a combination which cannot fail in football.

 

[Purple & Green]

You can see the rise of Chelsea and City and the correlation with the money thrown at them. This season the top 3 spenders City, Chelsea and Man U. Wonder what value for money 2 of those will perceive they've got...

Interesting appearance from Blackburn and the spending of Spurs was bigger than you'd possibly imagine. Can also see the impact of Fergie's golden generation demise...as they disappear the spending goes up.

Thanks for that, B

Cheers for the responses - I think different peoples takes are illuminating.

One thing I feel is that a wenger or a fergie wouldn’t get time to oversee infrastructure changes and in the case of Fergue wouldn’t get six years to deliver a league title.

Shareholders and investors demand instant payback and it’s unlikely a manager would get two years without some significant tangible success.

The quality at the highest level is all much of a muchness so the temptation is to throw money and look for quick returns - but to be honest - that’s my experience of big business and it suits a chief exec to bin an “underperforming manager” to deflect attention from his own failures in infrastructure.

I think it’s telling that the likes of Watford, Bournemouth, Burnley, Swansea,Cardiff have made massive progress on the back of a stable business plan.