I am not a huge reader of English media people but tbh I havent bought in to or believed most of what I have read from English journalists.
In terms of a reboot though the youth signings around then seemed mainly foreign, we had some English youngsters coming through and Bissaka for me was having a huge season that he was an obvious target anyway.
Then just last summer, who were the biggest links to us Bellingham, Grealish, Sancho.
Even if what this journalist has said is factually corrrect as it appears, I am not so convinced it was an actual strategy we took, or one that we have abandoned, more a case of pickign out stats to fit the means, just as there are just as many liek those mentioned which fit the counter argument