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I’m sorry but this is just shocking and I’m not saying it because we lost today.
These are not the type of signings to propel us any further up the table.
Do people really think Poch is happy signings prospects from the championship? Is this really what the new stadium is for? The big game changer to allow us to move up a level?
Bowen and Aaron's. It’s like Spurs haven’t changed from the days of Davies and Etherington.
It’s just deflating. Yes they may work out, but it’s incredibly unlikely. These are the deals clubs like Bournemouth do, not a top 3 side like we are now.
It’s bad enough that a side who were behind us last season now look like winning the league because they filled the holes in their squad. What are we doing? Where’s the ambition Levy?
Our squad is down to the bare bones. Our CM situation and striker situations are literally critically bad.
I absolutely refuse to believe Poch is happy with this type of “backing”.
I'll remind you that we've signed the likes of Alli, Bale, Lennon and Dawson from the Championship who have come in and made an immediate impact to the first team. Rose and Walker too after blooding them through the youth system.
Or we could just go out and spend £200m on Bakayoko, Rudiger, Morata, Drinkwater and Zappacosta. Because, you know, ambition. Maybe we should have taken out a second loan on the stadium so that we could free up some cash to splash out on Fred, Dalot, Lukaku, Matic, Lindelof, Bailly, Mkhitaryan/Sanchez, Schneiderlin etc. I look at all those players that lot from down the road have signed in the last few years, if only we'd been more proactive....
People keep bringing up Liverpool as the shining example as to what spending money can do, forgetting that they were notoriously bad at getting the big money transfers right for years and years. Benteke, Lovren, Markovic, Balotelli, Stewart Downing, Andy fucking Carroll...need I go on. They have lucked out in the last two seasons and made some very good signings, but they quite simply would not have had the budget to do what they have done if they hadn't a) Reached a Champions League final and b) Sold a £120m asset. Neither of those things applied to us, instead the thing that DOES apply to us is a £627m capex project to drain our resources. The idea that we could have made moves like Liverpool did in the transfer market without selling any big players is absolutely ridiculous. If we'd cashed in on Toby to free up funds for Jack Grealish like Poch wanted, then yes we'd have an extra body in CM but how "ambitious" would you be calling Levy then? Seems like a lifetime ago that people used to laugh at him for wasting big money on high profile flops like David Bentley and Darren Bent every year, and I have to say Poch's record in the transfer market even when given relatively decent budgets to spend has been pretty hit and miss throughout his career so it's not like overspending at this time when finances are tight is a low risk strategy. No, that doesn't forgive not signing anyone at all but a bit of perspective is needed.
Clearly, we do need to add to the squad. But we need to be realistic. What I find so annoying is when we see players like Robertson, Maddison and Brooks tearing things up in the PL and our fan base complaining that we didn't take a chance on them when they were young and available at a good price in the Championship, then when we actually DO get linked with promising young players who are available at a good price then our fans complain that the signings are not ambitious enough. It's tiresome.