People vote based on YouTube videos, never easy to tell until they've actually seen them play for us.
He could have vetoed the signings tbf, the idea of the new setup is so he has plenty of say in signings, Dyche was able to veto a number of Thelwells targets by all accounts so I'm not sure why Moyes wouldn't and I don't think he would work anywhere where he has no input into transfers, that was the issue at West Ham.
From what I've heard, we struggled to get players to sign for us, which is plausible until you see who Bournemouth and Brentford manage to sign. I think the problem is once our top targets had turned us down, our b and c targets just weren't well researched enough.
I think people are shocked that we spent £70 mill on these three players and they haven’t delivered yet , as £70 mil is a huge amount for us . The RS spent £300 mill on 3 players and are still moaning about them. Our plan seems to be that we can’t even afford to spend even £100 mill on 3 players but if we buy early enough we may get 3 players who are eventually worth £100 m. As you say we need to give them time.
He was obviously signed for his potential to an extent but I think everyone assumed that he was at least going to be viable competition for Mykolenko in the short term. I find it very hard to believe that we paid what we paid for him expecting him not have played a single minute of first team football at this stage, with Garner and Coleman having played left back instead. I also find it difficult to believe that a full international with experience of playing in La Liga would have agreed a permanent move to a club a significant step down from where he was to find himself in the exact same position in terms of gametime.
Then we should be looking into why that is. Do players still see us as a relegation fighting club even though the club had been taken over and clearly given a new future? Are they a bit put off by the fact that Moyes has a reputation for being slightly negative/safety first at times? 100% agree on the research comment, there has been a flaw in the way we do things for a long time regardless of who is in charge of the process. The likes of Brighton, Brentford, Bournemouth, and even Palace seem to find these players but we never do or certainly not in the same vein. Hopefully one or more of these youngsters we signed does eventually come good.
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