<Written assuming if we're interested in a player, the media has already come out with it>
I honestly wouldn't mind waiting another year for Sancho, if we think we'll get a better price for him. Our playing XI should be good enough for us to progress further. I know Sancho would improve our XI, but we should be able to trash 17 out of the 20 teams with what we have right now.
Which brings me to the point of squad quality. Someone pointed out that we can't have superstars sitting in the bench and while I agree, SAF managed this insanely well by picking up talents from the league from teams (10 - 20). We did have our routine pick-up from Tottenham for a while, but more often than not - we picked up players from bottom of the league than top. There are multiple advantages (least of which being that the player knows the league)
So why then aren't we in the market for someone like Sarr or Jamal Lewis or Max Aarons or Buendia or Allan Saint-Maxim.
Sure they aren't world beaters, they won't improve our first XI. But they've shown more in the League or atleast shown more potential playing in the league than almost any one in our bench.
We still seem to be going for the shiniest toy in the store and that might not be an ideal strategy.