Happy as we are or take the risk ?

Much as you joke, the only real chance without big investment is to develop an academy.

Signing big names is not necessarily the answer, it is about developing a brand of football and bedding it in from youth level onwards.
Barcelona being a great example.

In theory yes cinci,but the big clubs will always come in and poach them if they are good enough once they break into the team.

I don't think that is necessarily true perton, so many of the younger players at the big clubs end up nowhere as they have limited chances.

Rather than us spending billions to compete with the elite I would rather see the elite clubs stopped from buying success.
There are more ways than one to level a playing field.

Things will change, my personal view is that a euro league will change the face of the game at club level.

Patience will see us right.

Yes, the Euro league will happen.

But

Those that remain will behave in exactly the same way as the clubs currently ruling today - they will buy their way to dominance.

as uncle points out above - the city takeover and investment from the new owners has been hugely beneficial for the club, fans and city. very few man city fans will be unhappy seeing their side winning trophies, entertaining them week after week with quality football and turning the tables on the red half of the city.

for today's rich owners, read the massive numbers of 'fans' of Liverpool in the 70s and 80s, or man utd during the sky years, who have helped create a significant financial advantage for their teams. and whilst people always complain about the rich foreign owners of Chelsea and city, they rarely mention the £1b+ debt that united has secured against the club by...its American owners? or where the money has come from that has seen Liverpool able to spend over £150m on transfers even after they stopped qualifying for the European cup.

I'd like to see football return to the days of more realistic finances but it isn't going to happen any time soon. and i would far rather see wolves up in the premier league, competing and not just hanging on week after week and celebrating like crazy one of our 7 or 8 wins a year. in order for us to really move up that far, we will need a new owner at some point: firstly because morgan can't (or won't) invest the kind of money that dream requires; and secondly, and just as importantly, because he hasn't got a clue how to run a top flight premier league club.

I think city and Chelsea get the most grief because they are where they are due to money and nothing else, they were nothing clubs for decades.
The likes of united, arsenal and Liverpool have always been at the top.

The money is a joke throughout the game, hopefully one day hat changes but I can't see it.

united didn't win the league for thirty odd years? they have been at the top since sky took over running the top league and made sure that 'big' clubs with a large international following of fans had an advantage. this was further cemented by the European cup, so that the gap between the top sides and the others gets wider and wider each year to a point that the olny way to break into that cartel was through a large short term investment in money.

I'm not a huge fan of the riches wasted on footballers and the way the game has become more and more commercialised BUT a large amount of the moaning about Chelsea and man city comes from Liverpool and man utd fans who are running scared that their dominance has been broken.

Its a complex subject altogether.

But either way, I hope it never happens that way at wolves.