It's not a zero sum game though is it?
How much did we improve?
Hardly at all. You keep pointing to how much was spent but the only two players you can make a case for our of the 8 or so we signed are KDH and Grealish.
You won't tell me you rate Dibling, Barry, Rohl, or Aznou because you know they're crap and have been big wastes of money but if you admit that you lose the stick of the summer spending to beat him with.
So now it's a scale of improvement?
The point is, we improved.
If we roll back to the initial exchange;
Yeah small margins.
But you compared to previous seasons and all in saying is hang on, position wise we haven't improved. Currently.
I do agree we've improved, but then a club record spend should mean that happens.
I think we'll finish top 10 which will be sufficient improvement but I think some are too quick to praise, as well as criticise
That summer spend was wasted massively though.
What improvement did it produce?
Give me Grealish over Harrison, and Dewsbury-Hall over Doucoure all day. And twice of a weekend.
We spent it. Something we hadn't done the previous 4 or 5 seasons.
My point was to another poster agreeing that we've improved, you contested that. I've given you the examples of improvement, which you agreed with.
I think last summer is actually the one that has cost us though. Spending badly on expensive players is much worse than poor recruitment with a very limited budget.
I stand by my opinion last summer thar we had no strategy and just made it up as we went along. We just signed randomly and went from player to player. First thing we did was try to sign Tete as a new RB, then gave up signing a right back altogether.
I think it was a woeful transfer window considering we has monet to spend. I want new people to make the recruitment decisions.
Agree, and me too. I think I rated our summer recruitment bottom 5% in the assessment thread on here;
Oh, and
Moyes is obviously central/core to recruitment decisions. It's whether the wider setup let him down or not, like he wanted Delap before Barry.
If the right manager is available now I would say sack him now.
Understand the idea of sacking at our convenience rather than when on our absolute arses, but 'right' manager, whoever that is, isn't happening now.
