Usually, you would be right, but those seasoned pros you covet so highly haven't contributed much to the club in recent years. This new policy of promoting/buying young, hungry players and integrating them into the first team is a step in the right direction in my opinion.
Based on his form for United over the last 18 months, I see nothing in Sanchez that Greenwood, Rashford, James, Lingard and even Chong could not also provide.
Sanchez in isolation, yeah, he’s been rubbish for us and a disaster. My points have been in general - we’ll have lost Herrera, Fellaini, Sanchez and Lukaku. I’m not saying they were all brilliant but continuing to throw kids in and expect improvement is not going to fix anything.
Also the growing attitude on here of ‘we had a couple of big signings that didn’t work, so let’s abandon trying to sign them’ I just can’t fathom. It’s like fans have been sold magic beans and are waiting for some miracle...apart from the Leicester anomaly, pretty much every league is won by teams that spend big money on really good players.
It seems so obvious to say but United will be fighting for 4th whilst the teams with stars and who’ve strengthened with quality are going to fight for the league and CL. If we want to play lots of youth players, are happy not to challenge because of tradition and an enforced ‘British Bilbao’ type situation but we have a pride of blooming youngsters etc, then fair enough but let’s not kid ourselves and claim it’s the beginning of a master stroke to get back to the top again. I feel a lot of the fans think it’s going to work and it’ll kick off in a few months when it falls apart.