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15 hours agoGlasner criticises Palace's lack of summer investment
Crystal Palace's failure to reinvest the Eberechi Eze transfer fee has weakened squad depth and harmed domestic and European performance.
The mechanisms of a football team are delicate. You win the league then add nearly 300m of talent and it doesn't necessarily mean you'll win it again, doesn't necessarily make you better, even if you're not doing something as obviously likely to cause imbalance as adding Kylian Mbappe to a Real Madrid team already stacked with left-sided attackers. Liverpool go into Sunday's home game against Arsenal having won two out of two in the Premier League and scored a healthy seven goals.
Just how impactful can a stunning Champions League win be on the psychology of a team that has struggled to challenge domestically in recent years? We are about to find out. Arsenal's battling run to Lisbon and subsequent victory over Barcelona ended a north London trophy drought, yet it has still been six years since the most decorated women's team in England won a Women's Super League title.