Three Irons who defy the “spend big” screams

So it’s that time of the year again when many start thinking in terms of a telephone numbers transfer window!

Already the moans are emerging the emerging that the likely £60 million plus won’t be enough with the  view  among many appearing to be that a repeat of last season or more is a MUST.

It’s a view clearly based on the belief that only top players can be bought for top money yet it really didn’t turn out like that this season did it.

Just remind me for a moment, how much did Declan Rice cost (nothing), cast Iron Hammer of the Year Lukasz Fabianski (£7 million) Fabian Balbuena (£4 million) and even Issa Diop at £22 million was not a bank breaker.

Have any of them failed? On the contrary they have been tremendous success at a combined fee of £33 million and have demonstrated conclusively that fortunes don’t have to be thrown at big name players for the sake of it.

One big reason for appointing a top manager at a lot of money is to ensure that he can buy (or develop) players such as these.

And there is no reason to believe Manuel Pellegrini can’t do the same again during the summerwindow. Would he have taken the job had he not been aware of the club’s financial restraints – of course not.

Anybody can call for £300 million or more to be spent – not everybody can make £30 odd million work as well as Pellegrini has managed this season.

So maybe it might be a wise idea for us all to keep it zipped after a “not bad at all” first season and let him get on with his second free of thre moans and groans which walk in hand with the social media age.

COYI