Fair enough. Who exactly are you going to sign and replace if you were given the choice? Is it depth? What is the weak link in our side. I agree we need more depth. But our first 11?
Because of the lack of depth and the quality of our first 11 (being where they were in the summer) we are tired and not sharp enough.
Chelsea ? How have they improved? The manager? Ok let’s sach Poch and get in David Moyes.
Liverpool have improved - agreed. But not United, Chelsea or Arsenal. City have only signed one player Mahrez. We need about 3 or 4 fifty million pound players if we really want to challenge for the title. We are not there yet. Our most expensive player is Davinson Sanchez for 40 mil. Followed by sissoko for 35. Our business and footballing model is not the blank cheque book approach. And it’s remarkable that you think otherwise.
Financially we are an upper middle class club reaching where we are through astute business and footballing leadership. It is inevitable that our star players will move on until we are in a position to do an Arsenal. Buy the big time players after our mortgage has been paid off. How can you not see that?
Do you honestly believe we will be able to compete with City/United/Chelsea/Liverpool when the stadium is paid up? Look at Arsenal right now.... Thats what we will become if we wait. As it stands i cant think of a single Arsenal player who gets into our team..... Not one player. The way i see it Arsenal are fast becoming a mid tier team. This is a result of not investing season on season with quality additions.
So many posters in the TW bemoaned our lack of ambition our lack of signings and not because they just wanted too. We dont want to become another Arsenal/Everton/Leicester etc.
Waiting to pay the stadium off is not the answer. Its scouting NOW, identifying targets NOW and most importantly getting them at the START of a transfer window and not at the end of it.
We did not freshen up the squad nor did we sell some average players, who i will not single out. We all know that CM was a glaring area of weakness... It required 75-90 million of outlay on 2-3 players in this area to give us every opportunity to stay relevant and compete in that top 4 bracket.
No point having a shiny new stadium which only benefits Enic.... I want to see us compete not just make up the numbers, because thats what waiting to pay off the mortgage will do.