Some brilliant posts, from NG3 & Sniffer Dog in particular.
Alarm bells rang for me both with Carvalho's & Soudani's signings. 16m those pair have cost us, SIXTEEN MIL. Between them they have less goals than Matty Cash.
We've tried to blag it with players simply not up to it. The question should always be "how many top 6 teams would have this player in their first team?" If - like Soudani, Ansarifard, Dias, Hef etc. - the answer is "none" they shouldn't even be considered if promotion is the immediate objective.
Now that's not to say I'm against players coming like Ansarifard or Dias who need time to develop, but the expectancy level has to be adjusted in that case. If MON is expected to develop players next season then he needs his contract extending by another 12 months in order to do that. Unless that happens, then he's got 1 season to get us up, development takes a back seat, and signing at least five top 6 players is priotity 1.
Alarm bells rang for me both with Carvalho's & Soudani's signings. 16m those pair have cost us, SIXTEEN MIL. Between them they have less goals than Matty Cash.
We've tried to blag it with players simply not up to it. The question should always be "how many top 6 teams would have this player in their first team?" If - like Soudani, Ansarifard, Dias, Hef etc. - the answer is "none" they shouldn't even be considered if promotion is the immediate objective.
Now that's not to say I'm against players coming like Ansarifard or Dias who need time to develop, but the expectancy level has to be adjusted in that case. If MON is expected to develop players next season then he needs his contract extending by another 12 months in order to do that. Unless that happens, then he's got 1 season to get us up, development takes a back seat, and signing at least five top 6 players is priotity 1.