Fergie's model is the one we should be following (the same model we used to use)
he always buys the players that we should be buying.
like Phil Jones is the one we should have been breaking the bank for last year (not friggen Andy Carroll).
and Fergie doesn't often go after a big name. He prefers finding true quality - that will help him put his jigsaw together - e.g. vidic, carrick, hernandez, nani, etc.
And I note that in recent years, he has fallen in love with the Portuguese market.
Whereas, our two Anfield Cowboys are lost unless they see the finished article, with primadonna ego and costing a fortune.....and long since past their sell-by-date.
Our two best acquisitions last year were freebies, one was an easy talent to spot (Bellamy, who was near the end of his career); and the other I think our Director of Cowboys, found IIRC via a computer/database search.
Why we pay these two senior cowboys, I have no idea. What they bring to the club, for their enormous salaries, I (again) am clueless.
Neither can they find any talent; nor use it (if they ever should find it).