I don't think the point is that those players in particular would improve us, they're just examples to show you can buy players who do you a decent job for that sort of fee. I've been saying it for years, we've been spending £20-30m on every player we sign to effectively compete with teams like Palace and Southampton who aren't doing anything like that. Finishing midtable in this league does not require you to have a squad full of £20m+ players. It blows my mind that people moan constantly about the mess we're in and then advocate us continuing to do exactly the same things that got us here.
When Moshiri came in, he wasn’t spending all this money to compete with Southampton and Crystal Palace. And to be fair they weren’t competing with us the first few years. We’ve just bought poor players and employed the wrong people/managers.
There’s a lot of other teams spending similar amounts to ourselves around mid table. Like villa, wolves last season, Leicester. After the top 6 There’s 4/5 team after that spending quite a lot of money, including us.
Yes we should be challenging for Europe every year witt the money we’ve spent. Even Brighton have spent a lot of money, Bournemouth spent loads and went down. Burnley are one club who have massively over performed on their spending, but it was always going to catch them up, because of so many more teams in the league spending money. Palace I think spent 70mil last summer.
This league is tough, you won’t finish mid table spending little money and you won’t get near the European places unless you spend. It’s spending wisely that has held us back.
Hopefully that will change and we will find some bargains, but they will need to be mixed in with 30mil signings as well.
