Tony Adams was world class. Miles ahead of Terry who only really had a purple patch of a couple of years
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He was bought after we’d won the first league title.
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Those players you mentioned were bought after Liverpool won their first 10 - 15 titles.
If you’re talking about Barnes, Beardsly, Houghton, Aldridge, etc, they were massive signings bought when Graham had just taken over as manager here.
Those players went into a Liverpool team that was already the best in Europe, which makes what Graham did an even greater achievement as he only had a shoe string budget to work with.
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He bought the most expensive British goalkeeper in the midst of his time here and you keep maintaining how shoe strung his budget was.
I guess if you don’t want to see it, you will not see it.
Exactly, mate.
It’s about signing players astutely with the funds you have. Signing Seaman was a result of the success, not the other way around.
As @Stroller said, Bonds and Atkinson weren’t able to do that at the time.
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Seaman was bought after the first title. Before the first title we didn’t spend nearly as much as United and Liverpool. United were probably breaking transfer records and having the most million pound transfers in the 80s. Back then it was rare for a transfer to be that high.
To put it into perspective Seamen cost £1.8m in 1990 and was our transfer record and our first transfer over a million. United had spent nearly the same on Robson 8 years earlier. United had bought 8 players over a million compared to our 2.
Graham was lucky to have a top top academy though.
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Lukic was a good solid loyal club player ,
Graham signed Seaman because ‘he was the best’ Graham had very good inside knowledge of DS’s ability because Bob Wilson was the ‘keepers coach at QPR .
Seaman was being lined up at Man U but Ray Wilkins persuaded DS to join The Arsenal.
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A trophies a trophy end of day but it was never one teams got a lot of credit for winning from what I can remember 
I suppose the equivalent is this new competition uefa are introducing from next season
Let’s see if this makes it clearer.
The team that beat Liverpool was:
Lukic - 80k
Dixon - 300k
Winterburn - 300
Bould - 400k
O’Leary - Youth
Adams - Youth
Davis - Youth
Rocastle - Youth
Thomas - Youth
Merson - Youth
Richardson - 200k
Groves 50k
Smith - 900k
The whole of our team cost just over 2m.
Liverpool bought Barnes. Beardsley, Houghton and Aldridge at the start of that season for around 6m and they already had a team that was one of the best in Europe and there were plenty of other clubs spending way more than us.
As for Seaman costing just over 1m, we sold Lukic to Leeds for not much less, so the net spend was hardly anything.
So, as I said, the shoestring budget was not a myth when he was winning trophies.
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Didn’t turn up in the second leg though. It is a 2 legged game isn’t it?
Not a great Atletico team that season because it fell into the Europa.
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Didn’t they have a very strong home record, in all comps, that season?! 
Let the Famous Grouse and ginger wear off and I’ll try and remember 
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Which to me makes it even worse that he was siphoning off the amounts of money he was. And it was a double whammy as we also had to spend the money on the players that weren’t upto standards. A good couple of mil down the drain which at the time was still a lot in football. Suppose we’ve seen it on a much bigger scale the last couple of years with Raul and Kia 
Was it that much? 
I thought it was only 30k (only 
) as part of the John Jensen deal…
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A few hundred thousand for the bungs I think 
along with the fees involved for the players.
Why are you anti Graham when after all he left Wenger the greatest back 4 or 5 in the history of English football?
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Rumour has it @Mr_Nostalgia doesn’t like the snooker player Graeme Dott much, either.
He’s anti Dott
(F’ckin 'ell, I need a vacation 
)
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As well as Wright and Parlour. 
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I think it’s because Argos didn’t sell a duvet for a single bed in Graham’s era .
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