You're right, it isn't the same situation, I just find it hard to believe that we'd continue with a 34 year old Ashley Young as first choice after taking this season to slowly bed in Dalot (admittedly slower than I'd have liked), if that were the case then I'd have serious questions about our ambitions for next year.
- If we sign a young RB (great quality or not), we are looking at a 5 year contract or so. So what happens to the Dalot project?
- If we sign a not so young top RB, we are still looking at a 3 yr contract. So is 3 seasons is what we are looking at for Dalot to step up?
- If we sign a not so top not so young RB, then we can look at contracts of 1 yr or so. Which means we think Dalot will step up by that time.
I am guessing what we did was the 3rd point.
Ideally, I would like a top RB and get rid of Young, but then we need to make a decision on Dalot.