Maybe I've been lucky with the games I've seen him play but Ziyech has always impressed me.
We are struggling to sign any attacking player, & with him available at just 25m he covers the right wing and AM, it will baffles me if we end up signing no one with him available for so cheap.
He might not be as young as James but he's one thats cheap enough its worth the risk, while no breaking the bank...
Not signing Ziyech (or a similar left-footed #10/RW) was pure incompetence. We could have signed him for 40M or so, gotten 2-4 years of solid production and moved him on for 20M and it would have been worth it, and that's if the move didn't really work out all that well. He'd start every week here, either as a #10 or at RW.
Come to think of it, it now seems negligent that we didn't trigger Shaqiri's 13.5M release clause. He hasn't played much at Liverpool but would start here on the right instead of wasting away there, and at that clause he was basically free in that you have to assume he can eventually be sold for at least that number even at age 29 or so after 3 or 4 years here. He's not a worldbeater, but we could really use some creativity from the right with guys like James, Rashford and Martial more suited to running in behind than coming deep or centrally to combine with Pogba and create.
It's one thing that we've missed out on the players who would have us challenging for the Prem and the Champions league like, but it's embarrassing that we also keep missing out on the signings that would have us fighting Spurs for 3rd and getting into the knockout stages of the CL too. We're between 2-3 midfielders short of a starting XI right now (RW, #10/CM and a DM since McTominay should really be backing up one and getting starts as the 3rd CM when we need legs more than creativity, like a Moussa Sissoko type or young Darren Fletcher). Insane.