This transfer and the whole transferperiod in general reminds me a lot of two things: first of the way Moyes and Woody handled the transferwindow, being Linked FC and chasing what if’s and seemingly having no plan in place what so ever.
And secondly the targets we are after all being ETH mates reminds me of the van Gaal period with bringing in players that are far from the level that we aspire to be but are probably very good (chemistry) guys. Examples LVG: Romero, Blind, Schweini, Valdes, Depay. Examples ETH: Malacia, Antony, Martinez, Arnautovic, FDJ etc.
I know it’s early days but both are equally worrying and indicate that we have learned nothing from the last 7 or 8 years and thus are as unprepared as when Sir Alex left