Yeah but they haven't sold half their first team. That's the difference
But they can't play all of them.
Either
The majority of the new signings sit it out = Bournemouth no better than the team that got promoted that the manager thought needed 8 new players.
The new signings play = Bournemouth in the same boat as us.
A good chunk of the new signings play = potentially no-mans land with not enough of the new higher quality players on the pitch to make a difference and not enough of the old hands on the pitch to provide the coherence of play that got them promoted.
Or he goes the last one and gets lucky with the blend to get the best of both worlds.
He's got a 1 in 4 chance of getting it right and could be filled with doubt as to which way to turn.
Sherwood on the other hand has no doubts as to which way to go and can focus exclusively on one solution.
The only thing that can cloud his thinking right now is if there's another deal or 2 in the offing.
