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Sanchez is our record buy. Eriksen and Vertonghen well down the road to being established internationals. Son was already hugely well known. Il give you Rose and Dier but the other four weren’t exactly total punts.
You never said total punt, you said that we refuse to act early and sign potential. Are you saying that Eriksen, Vertonghen, Sanchez and Son were not investments in potential, that they were in fact established players who had proven themselves as being of the requisite quality? Because you’re next point is that we won’t spend when potential has proven itself.
Assuming you agree that they are all good players, we either signed them as potentially good players or we signed them as proven good players. There quite literally isn’t any other option, but those are the two things you said we just won’t do.
If you’re moving the goalposts and suggesting that all along you just mean total punts, then okay, how many total punts have our top 6 rivals successfully integrated into their first teams? Which previously unheard of quantity, cheaply acquired to the extent of Dele, is currently plying his trade in the first team of Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U, Man C or Liverpool? Because as I have displayed, we are regularly investing in potential quality (or, if you like, players already well down the road and well known).