Don't think anyone should panic but at least one of these statements must be true:
- We have not properly planned this window as well as we ought to have.
- Clubs are asking stupid money when we come a knocking.
- We need to sell to buy.
- We are waiting until the last moment to save a few weeks wages and putting the transfer fee on July's credit card statement.
- We are held up on 1/2 players from the A/B list making a decision which is stopping us moving on to C/D options.
Now a lot of these problems we have caused ourselves by having this massively bloated squad with players we can't shift. This suggestion is going to make me about as popular as a bout of gastric flu but if we want rid of Tosun and Morgan etc. why don't we play them for half/full season?
So Morgs fills the gap left by Gana and subject to him not going completely to jelly, he will probably get some suitors during the next window. If he plays really well you can keep or sell for big money. There is no such thing as bad players (we'll forget about Sandro and Niasse here), just bad motivation and systems. I expect Silva to be able to go to Schneiderlin, say you are going to be my main man at 6 and by the end of season you will be back to your best and be in the France squad for the 2020 ECs. As per the film Airplane! when Ted gets his motivational talk to say he can land the plane, I expect Morgs to come out of Silva's office with his chest pumped and triumphant music playing in his ears.
By not playing these players we are just throwing the money down the drain and make it less likely anyone will come in with a sensible offer. It scares the crap out of me that we are demanding 5 new signings who will all come here on big wages and seeing all 5 can't go into the first eleven at the same time we'll be in the exact same situation later on.