Kids with potential are expensive these days. Daft as it sounds, this isn’t a price for a likely starter. When top midfielders cost £100m, you can buy 5 kids and hope one of them eventually makes it - or even a couple more, considering you’ll probably get some money back for the ones who don’t make it at the Arsenal/Chelsea level, but are still quite good.
Kids with potential are expensive these days. Daft as it sounds, this isn’t a price for a likely starter. When top midfielders cost £100m, you can buy 5 kids and hope one of them eventually makes it - or even a couple more, considering you’ll probably get some money back for the ones who don’t make it at the Arsenal/Chelsea level, but are still quite good.
this strategy would be sound, if they didn’t already have two midfielders whom they spent >£100m each on.