That's all well and good but inevitably we will miss out on targets which could take us to the next level, just for the sake of saving small amounts of money. And I don't see how paying £15m for Joe Allen fits in with any of the above either. We were the only team in for him and had to pay well over the odds because of the agreement about not going back for his ex-players.
I think you are missing the point.. Everytime
we currently go for a player the price goes up by a few million. Even before we bought Carroll we had this problem. Arsenal don't get this, neither do spurs. The sooner we address this, the sooner we are no longer looked at as an easy target.
The simple fact is Allen is worth that money. Borini is also worth the money we paid for him. Siggy clearly was not. Time will tell but so far I couldn't be happier with how BR is going about his business.
