- Aug 18, 2012
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My issue with our recruitment, and source of frustration every window, is that I don't believe our financially prudent, non-oligarch approach is mutually exclusive with being able to sign a decent pacy attacking forward, a striker, and someone who can offer competition to Eriksen. With those three signings, and if they worked out of course, I believe we would certainly be much closer to City, much more so than the other big clubs.
I am absolutely without doubt that we could have spent £30m on a better player than Sissoko, for example. Did anyone think that was a good idea, apart from presumably Poch and/or Levy? Yes, not all signings prove successful, but if we can't get superstars, then we need to be going all out for the next generation of stars - players like Pulisic - while the core of our squad is still together.
I am absolutely without doubt that we could have spent £30m on a better player than Sissoko, for example. Did anyone think that was a good idea, apart from presumably Poch and/or Levy? Yes, not all signings prove successful, but if we can't get superstars, then we need to be going all out for the next generation of stars - players like Pulisic - while the core of our squad is still together.