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We’re fourth in the 5 year net spend table.
A signing fitting of our Europa League, 5th/6th place level.
The finances behind it are good, which is why it happened.
Think we can be confident Werner, Johnson and Solomon will be 3 of our 4/5 wide forwards next season, calling Son and Kulusevski central players.
So I remain hopeful we can still bring in 1 or 2 Champions League quality wide forwards this summer, but this is a very Tottenham type of signing which is a bit disappointing honestly.
The finances behind it are good, which is why it happened.
Think we can be confident Werner, Johnson and Solomon will be 3 of our 4/5 wide forwards next season, calling Son and Kulusevski central players.
So I remain hopeful we can still bring in 1 or 2 Champions League quality wide forwards this summer, but this is a very Tottenham type of signing which is a bit disappointing honestly.
Fitting for the end of this fucking season.
Meh. Insert Partridge shrugging gif.
Meh. Insert Partridge shrugging gif.
Werner and Johnson on the wings for us for another season.
Bit of a stretch to call those two wide players - I'd be surprised if both don't play most of their games out wide
He’s already gotten some minutes in the prem, he wouldn’t have gotten them if the club didn’t think he was ready.
So why not let him get some minutes next season in the EL?
There's optimism and then there's do you have a prescription for whatever you're on?
Son I can only see playing out wide if we bring in a top class centre forward. They cost a lot of money, so I'm not able to imagine it. He will end up our best centre forward again next season.
Kulusevski I think has been getting moved central more often as the season went on with arguably better results. False 9 or rotation with Maddison seems likely to me.
If we do call those 2 wide players there's not really any room in the squad to bring in more wide forwards.
He did a bang average job for us last season and will do a bang average job for us next season as well.
Less than a goal or assist every other game in this setup? Missing more chances than he scored?
Nahhhh.
It's not optimism. It is a realistic expectation based on his form for us last season.
Do you even know what his GA per game was last season?
Less than his turn back into poor positions and kill momentum per game anyway.
He played 3 mins FFS!
Regardless; 'getting minutes' isn't the same as starting games the fan-base will be expecting us to win comfortably(*).
Are you REALLY saying you'd be happy enough to only have Son & a 16 y/o Moore in the squad for LW? ....It's not even his primary position!
(*Remember peeps want us to go all out to win the EL?)
I hope he's an option off the bench because if this is a first team starter signing then it doesn't bode well for the season ahead.
No offense to the lad but he isn't going to take us up a level imo.
No offense to the lad but he isn't going to take us up a level imo.
But first for the cost to support the club.
Isn’t there part of you that wouldn’t enjoy seeing what it would be like if we were first in the net spend and went really hard chasing success?
What like Chelsea?!
How’s that working out for them on a PSR/FFP basis?
We don’t necessarily need to spend big IMHO, we need to spend smart.
Being given any minutes at all shows that the club believe that the player is ready to play.
The whole point of having an academy is for situations like this, having a player in the squad who can sit on the bench and cover those minutes instead of having to go into the market for another option player. That way you can use the funds to try and buy better players.
Giving Werner 165k a week to sit on the bench most of the time just to come off and find a yard of space to spam crosses and cutbacks against tired legs isn't the answer.