Last summer I said exactly that. Don’t judge until the end of the window. Given how badly that went with no Plan B I thought that with a widely reported limited budget it made sense to aim for more realistic targets and get them in early.
Reckon you have hid the nail on the head hence plan bI have a theory that we wanted to get ourselves in the same position as Sporting/Benfica/Porto, getting young Portuguese/South American players first then turning them from £5m players into £40m-£50m players, sell, and rinse and repeat. Buying the likes of Toti, Chiquinho, Mosquera instead of forking out for Dias, Fernandes, Felix once they've been polished up by the Portuguese giants.
We've found out that to do that and nudge ahead of them we have to have European football on a regular basis and obviously thought that after our first European campaign we'd be well placed.
Unfortunately injuries to Raul, Neto, Boly and Jonny plus Covid put the brakes on and now we're seeing a reassessment and a reboot after realising how difficult it's been to even attract and fund further starlets without having that upwardly mobile profile.
Good to see that a switched on international conglomerate like Fosun, has the nous to regularly review it's business strategy and respond to changes in market conditions and respond to the risks threatening the achievement of its strategic goals.
100%.
Agreed on Broja, if he is available for 20m or so get him in now
No Mendes, he is key to persuading players to invest in the project, so to speak. Someone like Collins would understand but when its up to Jeff and Sellars to persuade overseas players alone after a downturn in performance it will be much more difficult.
There shouldn't be much to assess!
I think Aouar was our back up option for Nunes....that's why he is now joining forest ......
Aouar to me was more of a CAM option similar to MGW.
not happy days or media hype ??
Media hype, it's certainly happy days.
Southampton need a CF. Broja was there last year and would be a low risk buy. I would be happy if he went there and left Goncalo Ramos to us.
And this is ut now, if we did approach Felix, what other options are they looking at? Truly exciting
Ok but just hypothetically if we now have seemingly unlimited funds, can we grow a clone of Robbie Dennison’s brain in Adama’s body.
Why? Surely we want the best manager for the job? I don't see what he has done to earn significant trust.
More of the case of we arent going to start beating liverpool and city 4-0 in september. Nor likely to beat them straight away
No but there should be some signs of progress. That the switch is making is in some way better. The occasional goal would be nice.
Thats completely fair.
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Good thing they know f all
