The mistakes made for me are as follows:1. Failure to bring in PL quality/experience in the summer.2. Refusal to bring in loan players in the Summer, thus freeing up funds to purchase better "permanents".This is of course with the benefit of hindsight but there are glaring similarities with the 2015-2016 relegation season. We bought some good players then but none had PL experience. Most have gone on to better things.It is noteworthy that now, out of desperation, we have done a U-turn.Regarding the loanees, there are 2 types of player: The young up and coming striker (Abraham) or the experienced player who is not getting a game at his parent club (Drinkwater). Whilst it is bold to claim that we are not going to enhance other teams players, we could still have considered a couple of older loanees given the amount of squad places required to be filled in one window. The signing of Mooy on loan by Brighton from Huddersfield was a masterstroke and freed up money for them to buy Maupay and Webster.If and it's a big if, we refused to pay for our number one targets such as Webster, Philips and Benrahma and opted for cheaper versions in Engles, Nakamba & Trez then this was also a mistake.
A couple of months ago we were saying we'd done well buying Nakamba instead of Phillips and how good Engels was looking. In March we could easily be saying the same.
Gary Cahill was on a free transfer.
Quote from: Three Spires Villa on March 09, 2020, 09:25:42 AMGary Cahill was on a free transfer.I was all for signing him on a one or two year deal but you can understand why the club didn't go for someone who was going to turn 34 during the season.
I’d like to be the first to say have they actually got a fucking clue what they’re doing?