A large majority of our fan base just criticise our transfer dealings no matter what, proportion blame without knowing the full facts.
They praise the club for getting one over on City by signing Sanchez. Call Di Maria, Schweinsteiger + Falcao some of the best signings we've ever made.
The board then change tact and target players on the up with european or international experience, whilst also targeting highly rated 15-17 years old from abroad, all for reasonable. I just feel some people moan for the sake of it.
We've been a bit slow this window but we obviously have our targets. VdB was one of them and we got him sealed with efficiency. Sancho has been hard which is to be expected for a deal of that magnitude. From reports, it seems that has been a collection of things as to why the deal hasn't happened yet or might not happen. If United as a club agreed from the start, they don't want to pay X in the current market, or pay certain fee's, then I'd expect them to stick to that. You go down a slippy slope if you just agree to unrealistic demands or demands that you agreed previously you wouldn't meet. The same people would then be complaining United are taken for mugs in the transfer market.
I've seen posters criticise us for getting beat to the signing of Reguilon by Spurs. If the board decided they didn't want a buy back clause in the deal and the others club have offered that to Madrid then fair enough, we leave the deal and go on to other targets. If you go down the list of other targets, and the clubs are sticking to unrealistic demands then you go without. Just signing players on deals that don't make economic sense to satisfy fans or bring in another body is no the way to go.
I think the board probably could have done better in the market, but I don't know the full story behind some of deals so I'm not going to act like it's FIFA or FM where buying players is simple.