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if you did you will understand we have to do our business at the end of the window. we tried to get players in early but goalpost where moved to an area of 20m extra so how do you want the club to go?
if that 20m extra means we lose out on a more important target what do you suggest we do?
not sure how much info is in here, but due to PL and CL rules we need to get rid of some non HG, and recruit 1 or 2 more. unfortunately no one is trying to buy our "wanted out's" what do you suggest? give them away? yet again it will effect our budget.
we are not Man C, Man U (who haven't strengthened yet), Chelsea (who haven't strengthened yet, and could soon be worse off), who can just go buy players and afford to pay stupid agent fees on top, in fact put your 2nd favourite team in that too, Liverpool (and most probably you and a few others are even more unhappy). please tell me how you see their signings as a guarantee they will finish above us
So at what point do you consider it to be the end of the window.... deadline day??
I accept that we cant pay 20m extra for every player we go for but when you haven't successfully been able to make any moves in the market, blaming all the other teams or indeed the market itself is really just a lame excuse for failing.
Its not just this window, if we take Sanchez as the replacement for Toby (which many have indicated is the case) we haven't upgraded the 1st XI for 2 years.
Poch has done incredible things with this squad but if you believe that rate of improvement will just continue on with the same players... you are kiddin yourself.
Every other team is making moves to strengthen, some significantly, granted that is no guarantee of success but its as close as you are going to get.