They don't feck about in the transfer window anymore do they, on paper their first 11 next season is going to be ridiculous. Meanwhile we've not signed a single player. Gap between us and them is only going to get bigger and bigger over the next few years imo.
It's frustrating that they seem to be in the habit of buying the right players consistently and that it has helped facilitate their transformation from financial basket cases to the point where they can splash this kind of cash without it really being a crazy risk.
However, things can go wrong on the pitch at any time. Managers can get their heads turned, players can pick up long term injuries, loose confidence or just tank. Sooner or later their luck in those respects will run out.
So I can live with the on pitch stuff.
What really concerns me is what they are doing with their infrastructure. They spent £110m to transform their stadium from a weight around their financial neck into something that is delivering returns comparable to a modern purpose built stadia. That investment will have paid for itself in 5/6 years and will make additional development possible. We on the other hand intend to spend £500m+ on BMD that will take 30-35 years to pay back and probably won't leave us much closer (once paid off) in terms of match day income than we were before either of us moved forward with stadium development.
That sort of gap terrifies me.
And I see from the echo that they are definitely moving forward with their training campus project, so in two years time the only tangible advantage we currently will have disappeared.
So colour me concerned, but it isn't Salah, Alisson etal keeping me up at night, it's the other sort of chasm.
