Us passing on Grealish (twice!) in favour of Donny and then Sancho is the perfect example of what's wrong with our recruitment strategy.
Most were in favour of those two because they played at a higher level and had impressive stats, overlooking their general play which was always vastly inferior to Grealish's. Grealish was always going to excel in a top team, and, imo, Donny and, to a lesser extent, Sancho were always going to struggle here because they heavily relied on the systems at Ajax and Dortmund to shine. Especially before ten Hag, you needed to be able to handle yourself as an individual because we weren't coached to play as a cohesive, modern attacking team, and they were/are just too weak to do so.