Tim Spiers

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

Which means maybe he doesn't become the world's most expensive manager at the team that's currently bottom of the Premier League.

Um it's just uh yeah, it's very alternative history.

Yeah, I mean, you know, other teams that are around Liverpool obviously won the win the Champions League a couple of years later, but they were not a great sort of league team around that time.

It's hard to see anything other than a period of united dominance, really.

You know, Arsenal was sort of slightly on the wane in terms of the fact that the Emirates was coming and they stopped investing, you know, in sort of uh proven sort of first team players around that time.

In the sort of couple of years that

follow their buying players like Van Persie and Abue and Flamini and Walcott.

buying them young and bringing them up.

So they're not they're not spending big money is what I'm saying.

So I think Arsenal are probably sort of on the way and and United maybe take those two titles that Chelsea won in oh four and oh five instead.

And I do wonder if that if that period of dominance maybe hastens Fergie's retirement.

You know, if he's just sort of winging it winning title after title you have to yeah because I felt like Mourinho get re energised Fergie.

He really

Yeah, well the Gauntlet had been laid by the Invincibles and then and then certainly by Mourinho and Chelsea in those two years.

Yeah,

Yeah, and the sort of notion of the fact that any club could have become a s you know, a superclub at that time.

Like like like Abramic turned Chelsea into.

It's easy to forget.

They're going no history whatsoever, really.

No league titles since what, fi nineteen fifty five?

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