Just look at some of the money poured into that team:
Almiron was a 25 mill forward
Joelinton was over 30 mill
Callum Wilson over 20 mill
Guimaraes over 30 mill
Botman over 30 mill
Isaak (not playing) 60 mill
ASM 16 mill
Willock 25 million
Wood 20 million
Tripper 12 mill
Burn 13 mill
Contrast that with our team yesterday
Gray 1.5
Dominic Calvert-Lewin 2.5
Gordon free
Gueye 2.5
Iwobi 35
Onana 30
Coady loan
Tarks free
McNeill 20
Patterson 12
Myko 16
You get what you pay for! We had a period when we had 30 mill players right through the spine of the team and we were blasting them for massively underperforming but since Ancelotti’s last summer window we’ve had four windows in a row of minuscule expenditure with the sale of most of our top assets James, Digne, Richarlison, Allan (yes it was right for some to go but they’ve not been replaced)
It’s too easy to just blame the manager, the club is trying to patch up an old banger with masking tape whilst other teams are buying sports cars and we keep wanting to swap the driver!