Cavani and Telles makes the window decent for me. Not fantastic by any means but it's decent, good at best I'll say. Inability to sign a proper RW in Sancho or Dembele hurts a little bit.
I'm super excited about Cavani and feel he'll surprise us all and will have a very good season. Telles will bench Shaw for good. VDB will bench Pogba by half of the season.
Its just all so weird and can only be described by incompetence. You don't run a club like this. You don't do a transfer window like this. Its a complete shit show and has 100% negatively impacted the start of our season.
Overall, if before the window you said we'd sign:
- Van de Beek
- Telles
- Cavani
- Pellistri
- Traore
I'd say yeah, decent enough, fair in the current climate to go on the squad building route and fill some gaps along with 2 wildcard young players (ignoring obscene fee for Traore with 27 minutes of professional football under his belt).
It was all so doable pretty much 2-3 months ago though. At least before the season started. Instead we literally wasted 3 months chasing Sancho, not realizing that Dortmund was in fact serious about their price and deadline (surprise surprise, not the first time they've been stubborn. Amateurish from us). And then we do all this on deadline day when we finally give up on Sancho? fecking hell. Woodward deserves sacking so many times over for what a disaster this window was, but the sad part is its the same every year. They move the window up to finish before the season and we still leave it to deadline day. They move the window back to adjust for covid, and we don't sort shit out til October. What the feck??
Anyway, at least we got it in belatedly. But this just isn't how you handle business.