I bet other clubs thought that of us though when we spending hundreds of millions, without even getting rid of the deadwood.
The difference is these teams have huge revenues. We wasted some money, sure, but does that mean we shouldn’t ever be able to spend anything ever again? United wasted far more than we did, but can just keep spending over and over again every window. Arsenal bought Aubemayang Lacazette Pepe for close to 200 million, decided they didn’t want them, let them all go for barely anything and can still just go out and buy Jesus Trossard Martinelli.
People are using the fact we haven’t recruited very well to argue against the there being a ginormous chasm between the sky six and the rest.
We could have had the best recruitment in the world, but ultimately the only way we can match those revenues is by consistently buying low, selling high, and somehow staying in the CL at the same time. Meanwhile the sky six can just spend spend spend without limitation.