This simply can't be stated strongly enough.
Ever since we've come into money, we've spent very poorly (on the whole).
£25m for Bolasie?
£25m for Klaassen?
£45m for Sigurdsson?
Schneiderlin at the time looked a good purchase at a decent price, but time has proved this not to be the case.
Tosun? Too early to say.
Vlasic? Too early to say.
Keane... the jury is still out.
Lookman has shown promise.
Pickford seems a good purchase.
Gana was value for money.
Sandro was cheap - even if he doesn't work out we can get our money back
Our recruitment team needs a shake-up.
Our spending spree reminded me of when you read about someone from a working class background who wins millions in the lottery, goes out on twenty holidays and buys thirty cars and ends up broke again in a couple of years.
We hired a scout and allowed him to spend what he wanted...
At Leicester he'd have been working with restraints as he wasn't the one in charge of financials, he's shown he's utterly clueless at valuating players monetary worth.
We've overpaid for every single player who didn't have a set release clause (Gueye and Sandro), only one we didn't besides was Walcott who Arsenal effectively did him a favour for his loyalty by asking for a low fee for him.
Ignoring the absolute obvious ones from this summer, even Lookman and Vlasic cost far more than they should have, we set a bloody transfer ecord for his country on Vlasic, purely because he had a couple of good games against us.