Yes I think there'll definitely still be some business to do after the season kicks off and that's both understandable and potentially beneficial.I get that.
Weeks ago you had people like Paddy Boyland and Mark Douglas bigging up the amount of work to be done as "unprecedented' (not at all, really). Talk like that creates it's own expectations.
It seems the US tour might be the next fork in the road. I hope we can get two more in then, thats £40m - £60m probably depending on where we get them from. My concern would be waiting on someone like Luiz and being strung along for the rest of the summer. It's a struggle to see how we pay his wages anyway.
I don't see any scenario where we don't need to do a lot of loan business at the end and that creates it's own risk. But we do need to add another couple in by the end of this month.
I suppose where i'm coming from is there seems to be a bit of a 'these guys know what they're doing everything will be fine' attitude, and the reality is it's not actually based on anything and has been said about every other new manager/DoF/owner we've had over the past however long. We've had plenty of transfer windows over the past couple of years where people have spent all summer/January calling people bedwetters and saying everything will work out, only for it to end up every bit as bad as people had predicted. It's not a case of panicking and saying everything's a disaster, I just don't think we should lose sight of the fact that this unprecedented rebuild they keep talking about doesn't really look like one at the moment.