It looks like we're heading into transfer season early - probably a good thing, and adding to the idea this executive is a big step up from the previous shambles operation - but it's a sign of how it's become at our club, that I find myself getting nervous. All over again.
So many disappointments over so many years now, generally all following the same pattern. It's there writ large when you look back in the threads. From the very first rumours, through to Ornstein says, onto 'it's on' and the 'here we go'. We ogled Onana (watching that CL final we thought he'd transform our game); got hooked on the potential of Højlund (I remember searching for the YouTube clips of his hat-trick for Denmark); and (maybe) even thought Mount could be a great addition (though I was definitely in the group who were bewildered we prioritised paying £50m+ for him). Plenty more in there too of course.
Sure, most fans at most other clubs go through the same sort of thing, but we have such a consistently appalling track-record of flops and failures, going back for so long now. Never has so much been splurged on so little, to turn a phrase.
Seeing the links to Cunha has me now thinking 'is he really worth so much of our budget and doesn't he have a questionable temperament?', just as thinking Delap really might be our main striker target gets me fixating on the idea he's a huge gamble, who's raw, unproven and risks becoming someone else we'll be looking to shift in 18 months.
So, triggers on transfer dread (Utd style), is it a thing?
So many disappointments over so many years now, generally all following the same pattern. It's there writ large when you look back in the threads. From the very first rumours, through to Ornstein says, onto 'it's on' and the 'here we go'. We ogled Onana (watching that CL final we thought he'd transform our game); got hooked on the potential of Højlund (I remember searching for the YouTube clips of his hat-trick for Denmark); and (maybe) even thought Mount could be a great addition (though I was definitely in the group who were bewildered we prioritised paying £50m+ for him). Plenty more in there too of course.
Sure, most fans at most other clubs go through the same sort of thing, but we have such a consistently appalling track-record of flops and failures, going back for so long now. Never has so much been splurged on so little, to turn a phrase.
Seeing the links to Cunha has me now thinking 'is he really worth so much of our budget and doesn't he have a questionable temperament?', just as thinking Delap really might be our main striker target gets me fixating on the idea he's a huge gamble, who's raw, unproven and risks becoming someone else we'll be looking to shift in 18 months.
So, triggers on transfer dread (Utd style), is it a thing?
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