There were a lot of moving parts in this transfer window, with FFP and with the new added perspective of us being a club in the expanded champions league for next season. So trying to analyze whether it was a good transfer window or not I don’t think is necessarily an easy task.
You could take an FFP compliance perspective, overall ins and outs, new alternatives in positions that will be different to last season, addressing known deficiencies... Sometimes it’s not even a simple case of trying to plug holes because if a certain opportunity arises that may not come again (e.g., Maatsen when we already had two decent left backs) clubs have to consider acting on them if they don’t think they may materialize again.
Overall what I think is that in the short term, we’ve made some small, incremental improvement steps, but probably not enough to progress too much. But that may just be entitled football impatience and also being scarred by ‘jam tomorrow’ promises we’ve had in the past. Also not signing before we sell whilst it can be frustrating is ultimately prudent and a sensible, long term strategy.
In the long term, it’s difficult to say (such as the two lads we got from Juve), but I have total faith in our current football operation. Rodgers is already an absolute bargain and if we get more right then wrong, that’s all we could reasonable expect.
One thing is certain though; we’re relying on Emery working miracles again and to me, reducing that reliance indicates whether we’ve had a good window or not.
