Queens Park Rangers is among the most active in the transfer market, and they are not doing it without grabbing the headlines. On paper, this team has enough names to secure at least a mid-table finish in the league.
Jose Bosingwa, Rafael, Park Ji-Sung, Djibril Cisse, Luke Young, Junior Hoilett, Adel Taarabt and most recently Julio Cesar look like making up a team that could easily beat teams like Wigan, Aston Villa and Norwich by at least two-goal margin.
I am for one not an advocate of judging a team by how they perform in the first few games but if a manager spent the transfer window like a rich kid in a candy shop, I'd have some space to be a little judgmental.
And especially when the manager reports to a Malaysian owner - who bought the club's shares using the money he earned by swapping public-owned national carrier shares with his budget airlines'. Let's not talk about this for now.
Esteban Granero, nicknamed El Pirata, who plies his trade in Madrid among football's household names is the next to be linked with a move to Loftus Road. In a way I commend the management's machismo in making a statement that they mean business this time. Last time they were nearly sent packing to the Championship in the last day of the league and the rest as they say is history, and few million pounds.
Recent results show that money talks in football sometimes, although the idealistic man in me convinces otherwise. Man City spruced from nowhere to win the Premier League with oil money. Real Madrid and Barcelona boss the Primera Liga and reset the market price of potential players which could shy away and kill the hope of small, poor team to get quality potential players.
Even a club with great history like Liverpool could not get the players they want with the kind of wage structure they adopt.
But like many things in life, having the best toys does not necessarily mean you can have the best of fun. You can have all the best players but a team is not made of skillful, rich individuals but a team is a fluid of hardworking, dynamic players who help their team-mates like they help their brothers.
You can have the best toys, you can have the best job, you can have the best cars, you can have your dream house, you can have everything you want but don't let the toys take away the person you're once were.
Enjoy all the money you have while you still can, because I'm taking something you can never take away from me,
good times and good fun.
Ta-ra.
