Bit amateur like. It seems we've been let down by outside factors as well though and if the stories are true about deals like the brahimi one, it's good in the long run we haven't just bent over and let teams name their price. Fact is we were going after players who mostly chose champions league teams over us e.g. mata, witsel, perez, gabbiadini, sissoko and we had plenty of backup choices as well.
Koeman didn't fancy some players fans thought would be good additions e.g. hart and bony, he's a manager at the end of the day whereas we're just fans. We have a kind starting fixture list so hopefully continue our good start and learn from our mistakes and hopefully with a good league position we'll be a more attractive option and make a few signings in january which may propel us to europe or champions league.
We got Koeman to eventually sign because we sold him our vision. We seemingly got lukaku to stay and possibly sign a new contract partly because of that same vision. They'll no doubt be thinking they've been had to an extent.
I wasn't expecting top quality signings at the start of the summer, my hopes were raised by our ambitious targets and the growing possibility they got close, had they all rejected us out of hand straight away it wouldn't even bother me and we could have obtained more gettable targets straight away then. But if i was offered our transfer business at the start of the window, i would have been pretty underwhelmed, i would ahve expected more.
I do hope we learn from this.