Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
Yeah, but it wasn't a speculative buy, he was already 18 and playing in the Champions League. Ferguson saw the raw talent and thought he could improve him, which he did. We are comparing apples with oranges here, clubs like Chelsea are doing an entirely different thing.
An 18 year old playing in the Champions League is not seeing "raw talent", its seeing a player that is obviously good and going somewhere, Liverpool, Barcelona, Arsenal etc all wanted him