Not sure why the negging. I'm not after another Rafa war. I may not of come across well but what I was trying to say was all this 'we should buy him/he's crap/dogs bollocks' is ascertain what our current 11 is and squad and compared with what we had back then stands up very well.
The market has been fucked up by oil money so the price of players and cost is irrelevant.
We have an outstanding first 11 as this season has proved but we are now thankfully going on another euro adventure.
I'm nearly forty and have been reading this forum since the late nineties so please don't think I'm on a wind up.
If buying and moulding youngsters is what direction we intend to go by then paying what people consider extortionate is irrelevant.
Europe of late has proven that it's not necessarily the best squad and the most expensive combined, it's the team collective and management that has risen to the top.
We can improve on what we have in certain position's it's just getting that balance right.