You could dress it as he's found astute signings for the level required though. Anderson could undoubtedly play at a top 4 side, in fact I'm surprised more big clubs haven't been linked with him given how well he plays out of the back.
Besides him they are mainly aiming to stay in the league, and I'd say they've built a pretty young side that should be able to maintain that for a good while.
His big test will be can he spot players with an even higher bracket of potential that Palace wouldn't have been able to afford.
For sure they've had little money to spend and they havent wasted it. And in fact I think you're doing the players hes signed a disservice because plenty of them are better than some players we have in our squad in the same positions, or would be a good improvement on what we have starting.
I just think that as soon as he makes the call to a championship club etc coming from United instead of Palace the fees double so it'll be harder to get them right.
I think most of the players I talked about would be fine in our squad if not strong first team starters, its just whether they are worth significantly more money than Palace paid for them.
Olise for example was the best young midfielder in the championship after Bellingham left. Palace are able to sign him for just under £8 million. Dan James was never one of the best wingers in the championship and he cost United £15.2 million
Olise would have been well worth £20 million or more that we'd likely have been asked to pay instead of Palace. Several of the signings they made would have been worth the extra money. But not all of them
Guehe, Olise, Eze and Anderson were all signed for under £20 million each and if a top club wanted to sign any of them now they'd likely be asked to at least double what was paid for them.
But then you have a few others where I dont think thats the case. Odouard and Doucoure for example might have been worth what they paid but not the extra we'd have had to pay signing them with the clubs knowing we have more money than Palace and we tend to spend a lot. And discerning which ones are worth the extra and which ones arent would be key.