KinkyKinkladze wrote:Aye we have talent. But it's pretty much the same team that won the league 3 seasons ago. It feels very much like we've stood still whilst Chelsea have strengthened 2 years running, even Wenger has got his purse out for flair players.
When players like hazard, Sanchez, Suarez, fabregas and di maria have all made moves in the past 2 years, it feels criminal to me that we've signed squad fillers. We all need a squad filler, but we also need somebody new to come in and make it spicy. We haven't had that since aguero. Unless you count Scott Sinclair.
difficult to argue against this point.
why?
also difficult to assess.
we missed out on hazard.
think the club wanted the previous team to see what they could do under a new manager.
so...we won some trophies, and progressed in the cl so confidence was high.
yet, it is harder to see the team remaining the same after the next two windows, even with a turnaround. too many players at/near/past their peak or performing below what we need of them.
did concerns about ffp affect our transfer policy? i think so, and why i think frustration about our attempts at compliance with ffp were expressed. we spent big in the past to land many of our key players. silva, yaya, aguero, nasri, milner, etc.
we have not done so much of late for top quality commodities perhaps because the costs to buy are far higher, and we are not real madrid, united, barca, etc. in terms of revenues.
i think we seem to have been more responsible the past few seasons but we have some valuable players to many clubs, and have strong negotiation/talent assessment skills with txiki.
not sure who we are targeting, but we have been quite clandestine about this since he has come aboard. it would be difficult to see us not making a pretty big move by this summer, winning things or not.