We definitely need to sit down and nail our club identity. Do we want to be a club that buys young and promising and develop them into stars? Or do we want to try and bomb our way into being a "destination club" instead?Signing “world class players” is not the solution to our problem. We thought we spent £60m on a world class midfielder and it turns out he’s Huddlestone level at best.
We need to do what we did in the recent past, what Leicester are doing now. Sign younger, hungry talents. Fofana, Maddison, Iheanacho, Tielemans, Castagne etc didn’t need to be world class to put Leicester in the top 4 and an FA Cup final.
People sneered when we were linked to Championship player Jack Grealish 3 years ago but they look pretty stupid now. All our recent transfer success has come from signing younger players right before they explode. Every time we have spent a large fee it has failed.
The former seems the more reasonable approach. Our finances are nowhere near close enough to be able to swing in the same price range as the real big dogs on a consistent basis yet and won't be for a while. So it would probably be better to take the "Dortmund approach" for lack of a better word.
Develop youngsters, buy low, sell high, play entertaining football and like Dortmund this year when presented with a chance at a title, be it league or cup, go for it.