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There are too many transfer threads and I thought I would do something different. I watched the "damned united" yesterday and it got me thinking why cant teams did what Clough and Shankly done with their teams, bring a newly promoted team to amazing success.

pretty obvious football is all about money these days. times have changed since then

wern't man city in the 2nd division about 8 years ago. shows what money can do. it cost them how much to break into the champions league? about £600m?

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yes however I remember a couple of years back Ipwhich finshed 5th in first season back, Football years sky sports

yea i think they were like 2nd most of the season too. pretty sure that was the treble season cos i think craig burley got manager of the season ahead of houllier even after all his trophy wins and finishing 4th

true, wasnt that in the late 90's or am i wrong? anyway, football has changed a lot during the last 10 years (atleast when it comes to the financial part of it)

yea you're right it was the 00/01 season

We are going to show the world we don't need rich oil tycoons to be successful, we already have but even more

Little hard to pull that one off when we are about to spend 18m on Henderson, meaning we've spent the guts of 55m on Carroll and Henderson