Ger Gilroy

I guess because what they've done in the meantime, so to get him, they put the whole apparatus and architecture that he had at Barcelona in advance.

And maybe what the whole point of developing that incredible academy was to make themselves sustainable.

So their net spend is always less than everybody else, even though they are still spending a quarter of a billion in every transfer window.

Kind of almost unremarked upon when they do it.

It's like, oh, we signed seven players as transfer window, and they were a minimum of 40 million each.

It's nonsense.

It's nonsense.

It's about glory.

They're signing massive contracts for kids at 12, 13, 14 and giving entire families jobs to make sure that they can do it.

That is all happening.

Look, I think that you want your club to well run.

I mean, I think the NL sporting director who might say no to Unai Emery when he's signing all these shit players, he'd be like...

Maybe you and I... Do that in the background.

Yeah, you want those signings to be made and then you want a bunch of our lads.

I was making this point earlier to David off air.

Villa's second oldest starting line-up in the Premier League this year, 29.9 of an average age.

Like, that's exactly what... Chelsea need some of those players in their team to help the kids come through.

Because, you know, it's going to be really interesting.

We haven't even talked about Xabi Alonso, what he's going to do there.

He seems to be a manager.