Indeed, it's sad but it is what it is. The easiest example really is the amount of people who are calling for Beto despite never seeing him play but for whatever reason don't want Adams under any circumstances. Adams is £12m, Beto would be easily £30m probably. Look at the amount of examples of players coming from Italy and not cutting it here.
Kean with us but more easily seen with the similar type of player look at Scamacca last year for West Ham, could barely get in the side, who were better than us, after a big transfer and after just a year they cut their losses on him and sent him back to Italy for a £10m loss. We can't run that risk. The other point is frankly look at the striker market these days, it's absolutely goosed. I know he's a prospect and all that but look at the lad United has just signed, a totally unproven player that scored 9 goals last year and he's £70m+, I mentioned him a while ago but Kean when we were buying him was much higher rated and known when we bought him and he was literally less than half the price.
Adams is a poor player in the grand scheme of things but we're really not paying much for him at all, we could literally pay 3x as much easily, and end up with someone just as poor and we'd be in massive trouble.