Crystal Palace boss Patrick Vieira insists the Premier League’s richest clubs are making it harder for everyone else by inflating transfer fees with their massive spending sprees
Patrick Vieira believes the spending of some of the division’s wealthiest clubs is good for the Premier League but makes life harder for the rest when they try to buy players from abroad.
Vieira, who ruled out a fresh move for Chelsea‘s Conor Gallagher, says the transfer activity of a few Premier League clubs drives up prices and gives foreign sides a false impression of what others are capable of.
Vieira’s Crystal Palace face Manchester United on Wednesday, the second of three successive fixtures against clubs who have displayed their spending power.
Crystal Palace boss Patrick Vieira says the Premier League’s richest clubs are making it harder for everyone else, with their massive spending sprees inflating transfer fees for smaller clubs
The Eagles lost 1-0 against Chelsea on Sunday, who signed Mykhailo Mudryk for £88million
Palace were edged out by Chelsea on Sunday, the same day the West Londoners confirmed the £88m capture of Mykhailo Mudryk, a deal that took their spree beyond the £400m mark since the summer.
United spent more than £200m in the last window, while Palace host Newcastle on Saturday who now have greater financial might than most clubs in the world following their Saudi takeover.
Vieira said: ‘What happened with the spending of those teams is good for the football club and is good for the Premier League so we just have to compete when we are on the field with the quality we have, the ambition we have, the values we have and we will compete and that is what is important for us as a football club.
‘Of course it is not going to make it easy because when the Premier League team goes abroad to try to bring that player, it becomes really difficult because the other [selling] team will think we have the same spending as the other team. Of course it makes it more difficult.
‘What is important is that we know who we are as a football club and what we can achieve in the market. Chelsea are in a different level and we have to accept it but we can be really smart and we can work in a different way to find the players to fit the…