This is all well and good but this player went for 22m only a little while ago. Where were our scouts and Poch then? We are seeminlgy always late to the party. N'Dombele is the other one.
When Poch refused to buy in the last two windows both the Argentinian and the Frenchman were much much cheaper!!
Now we are getting rogered for a princely sum.
How many similar players are out there now that we could get at reasonable prices before they break out and are the Lo Celsco and N'Dombele of next season or the season after? Or is our coaching set up so piss poor that the scouts can only spot the bleeding fucking obvious. Maybe they should spend some time indoors playing FIFA 19.
Fucks sake, 85% of this board have been talking about Tanguy for a year or more.
When I look at our youth set up and the crap coming up through there, I think it would be better if Levy went out and bought the scouting team from Betis, Ajax or Benefica. That would be a better transfer window then the last three put together.
I think you raise a pretty darn good point. We’re kind of in a place where we have to spend huge to fill gaps and progress because we haven’t done what was needed to progress incrementally and with those types of buys.
Hopefully if we have big summer to get the huge stuff done, the scouting system can get some major investment and those are the types of moves we can focus on going forward. We may have money this window, but we won’t be able to compete with the top teams generally, so we have to find and land these guys before they become no brainers.
It does seem like building a world class scouting team would be one of the cheapest ways to get a massive bang for the buck.