032Devil
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Last summer Jose Mourinho bought three players for about £160m and one free transfer.
What the season of 2016-17 showed was that although these new acquisition undoubtedly added to the quality of the team, there were other areas that desperately needed improving:
Defence: rightback, left back and another centre back (Smalling & Jones highly injury prone)
Midfield: Still lacking in depth
Attack: SAF had four quality strikers at the height of his success - Mourinho has an aged temporary solution (Ibrahimovic), and 2 young strikers
That's roughly half-a-dozen or more players we need to be a consistent force again. Should Mourinho continue in the vein he did last summer by buying another 3 to 4 again that will leave us short in some departments or should he sacrifice quality (and avoid buying someone for say £100m), and buy shrewd quantity that would solve most of problem areas?
If he buys another 3 or 4, our overall performances will improve but we will continue to have problems. But if he buys the second, third or fourth best we might be able to solve more of our problems. After all, Tottenham have a quality team with possible only 1 or 2 star. SAF too had stars in his team but also had solid performers like: Denis Irwin and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who had no reputation and Edwin van der Sar with his best years behind him. There were many others, but on the whole they had pedigree.
What do you think?
What the season of 2016-17 showed was that although these new acquisition undoubtedly added to the quality of the team, there were other areas that desperately needed improving:
Defence: rightback, left back and another centre back (Smalling & Jones highly injury prone)
Midfield: Still lacking in depth
Attack: SAF had four quality strikers at the height of his success - Mourinho has an aged temporary solution (Ibrahimovic), and 2 young strikers
That's roughly half-a-dozen or more players we need to be a consistent force again. Should Mourinho continue in the vein he did last summer by buying another 3 to 4 again that will leave us short in some departments or should he sacrifice quality (and avoid buying someone for say £100m), and buy shrewd quantity that would solve most of problem areas?
If he buys another 3 or 4, our overall performances will improve but we will continue to have problems. But if he buys the second, third or fourth best we might be able to solve more of our problems. After all, Tottenham have a quality team with possible only 1 or 2 star. SAF too had stars in his team but also had solid performers like: Denis Irwin and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who had no reputation and Edwin van der Sar with his best years behind him. There were many others, but on the whole they had pedigree.
What do you think?