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Do you realise you've accredited Maguire's performances last year to both Leicester and Man Utd?
Maybe need to look at who replaced Maguire at Leicester.
But Wanyama and Sissoko were signed in the same transfer window to play in different positions...and you've conveniently left out two of our best / best value signings (Moura & Bergwijn), to make our recruitment look worse than it actually has been
Again, you're missing the point.
Forget about the examples, I'm simply saying that over the last four years our starting eleven has diminished by 6 players.
In that same timeframe we have spent £200 million on 6 players who have had little effect on the first team.
My belief is that £200 million is a significant sum of money and had we used that money more effectively we wouldn't be in the position we are.
The examples were simply to show how two teams had spent the same amount of money more effectively and finished above us as a result.
And had we bought those players instead we would still be top four.
This emphasises my point it's not the amount of money but how well it is spent.
The only reason I'm arguing about this in the 'expectations' thread is that I don't believe our business needs to be high cost to get us back into the top four.
We can pick up a DM, second striker, and RB for less than £50 million (minus outgoings) and I think that can see us challenging 3rd place (again, assuming we buy the right players).