Thanks - yes I'm one of the youth watchers and try to explain where we are with HG, but there's a few of us.
If we repeat last season's window in terms of quality of players coming in, I'll be more than happy. We've almost got to a stage where we have a full squad - just need to upgrade a few. And worth remembering that integrating players takes time and its not easy to recruit say 2 cm's as its not obvious sometimes how the cm3 will gel and play together.
A good example to look back to on that is Jol in about 2005, he was given 20 new players (half fiirst team half u21's) but it wasn't until 2nd season when he got a team playing together properly - we came 5th (best position for almost 20 years) after being 4th from Christmas through to last day of the season ..... and Lasagnegate.
So it will take another couple of windows to complete the rebuild (Ange suggested 3 windows) but if we bring in the right players even say 4 new players in will make a huge difference to the team/first team squad which should mean injuries/suspensions/loss of form impact us less as we have a decent sized quality squad next season (even this season I think we have say 15 core players plus Royal/Davies decent players but d not fit system, Hojbjerg/Lo Celso etc - but next season hopefully closer to 20 core players)
And a key issue is - availability of players (they want to come, right attitude, right price etc) .... and we can move on players in our squad and unwanted loanees. And that's not easy to overcome.
That's something that even Mancity throwing unearned money has been able to overcome - hence buying but not playing Phillips, selling their best u21 player (Palmer) to Chelsea as they couldn't easily play him. So I fully expect to end the window with a few players who I'd prefer not to have, but this issue will reduce over the next couple of windows.
