Sniper Mik
Not a Closet Sp**s Fan
Even as little as signing a reliable goalkeeper would have gone a long way to making us a more successful team back then. And would have cost us peanuts to fix that issue.I'm not sure those squads were that much worse. We have a couple of very good individual players now, but until ~2012 there was a clear vision and, dare I say it, philosophy to what we were trying to do. We only had one trick but at least we were very good at it.
I think in the early Emirates era we were just one or two defensive signings away from winning the title. Feels like we're much further off now if I'm honest.
Of course the rest of the league catching up financially to the Sky Four has made things more difficult as well.