And our signings? Fred, Lindelof, Bailly, Pogba, Dalot, Lukaku are all in good age. 29-30 is supposed to be prime in many cases for players. Half of ours those you listed ain't starters. And squad average age is very healthy. Try to look at other (preferred sucessful) teams. Do we need more quality in our starting XI to improve the team? Yes. Resale value is depended on result also. Look at Shaw. It's unlikely he would get us good fee if he is to be sold now, and he's young. Shaw is one of other players in good age at the time signed under LVG, and most of them now have been moved on and in the progress. So what's the point of not looking at 100th step ahead, when you're struggling for the next few steps
The ultimate aim of transfer is filling what you need. No point in planning for future when you can't get going at the moment
Thing is our fans are panicking.
They want Bale, they don t want Bale. If Bale can t be done, they want Bailey or Malcom, or whatever player has a good youtube compilation.
I m beggining to think that we want players just for the sake of it, just to compete with other teams spending. I don t understand it anymore, it s not even funny.
Some people are complaining that we didn t get Malcolm. Well, we have paid scouts, people that watch a player all year round and you, the fan reading this post, think that, after seeing a YT clip, know what the fek we need?
Other than CB and some extremely expensive CM buys, what else can we buy ? A RM, which oone? A LB, which one?
Football is a business these days, you try to buy ready made players that don t cost a feking fortune. (Matic, fred, kante etc)
We can t buy every prospect out there, especially forward players. Every attacking mid these days has a good clip on YT, knows some tricks and flicks, but how many of them deliver the numbers? Few, very few..
We re spoiled, quite a lot.