Constantly buying new players is sort of how you maintain success though. I’m not talking a whole new squad every window like Chelsea, but at least one or two quality additions.
If you settle with what you deem to be a ‘good enough’ squad you end up with what happened at Liverpool, where they had a UCL/Prem winning team that slowly eroded as players aged, left or decreased in quality.
City are experts at continuing to refresh their squad even when they’ve just won the league (or a treble). I’d be disappointed if we didn’t sign a new forward in Jan as a backup for Jesus or Saka.
This is basically where City are at now - they have the ability to add 1-2 players each window and keep the quality level high.
City are also far better at selling players than we are though, but that’s only because they have players people want. If clubs want your players (because they are high quality) the price gets driven up. Basic supply/demand.
Arsenals last player we had whom everyone would have wanted, and I mean everyone, was Henry.
We’ve managed to sell some mediocre players for over-inflated fees (Ox, Iwobi) but we’ve never sold one of our prime players for what they are worth.
In our current squad, only Saka would likely command a £100m+ fee - and we would never want to sell him so I expect our player sales to continue a similar pattern.
Constantly buying new players is sort of how you maintain success though. I’m not talking a whole new squad every window like Chelsea, but at least one or two quality additions.
If you settle with what you deem to be a ‘good enough’ squad you end up with what happened at Liverpool, where they had a UCL/Prem winning team that slowly eroded as players aged, left or decreased in quality.
City are experts at continuing to refresh their squad even when they’ve just won the league (or a treble). I’d be disappointed if we didn’t sign a new forward in Jan as a backup for Jesus or Saka.
This is basically where City are at now - they have the ability to add 1-2 players each window and keep the quality level high.
City are also far better at selling players than we are though, but that’s only because they have players people want. If clubs want your players (because they are high quality) the price gets driven up. Basic supply/demand.
Arsenals last player we had whom everyone would have wanted, and I mean everyone, was Henry.
We’ve managed to sell some mediocre players for over-inflated fees (Ox, Iwobi) but we’ve never sold one of our prime players for what they are worth.
In our current squad, only Saka would likely command a £100m+ fee - and we would never want to sell him so I expect our player sales to continue a similar pattern.