Football: How the Modern Game Works

I’m surprised that no-one has yet cottoned on to the strategy of buying up star players at finger-licking prices in recent years. The idea is not only, or even mostly, to attract the best players but also, and more importantly, to make sure that nobody else can have them either. The thing is to make sure that rival teams end up with the modern-day equivalents of Roger Hunt and Norman Hunter. It’s a good tactic and it should work. Pity you can’t adopt the same approach at national level.