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The interesting thing to me is that outside of Pogba, you can easily argue all of United's big-money moves were disasters. Yet they can keep spending. And likely aren't spending now due to plans to by the Glazers to sell the team. The issue to me is that the risk is just exponentially bigger when you're a club that can't keep affording to pay retail time and after time.

It's interesting that this critique was made when Arsenal signed Ozil. Andrew had a guest on the Arsecast who made that point at the time, saying that Arsenal signing Ozil for their then-record-high fee was impressive, but they were unlikely to replicate it. While United, City, and Chelsea could do it over and over again. Nothing much has really changed in the nearly 10 years since.

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