Born a Barras Hick
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Mate because lots of bears have differing opinions as to how to improve our squad it doesn't mean the club is obligated to act on all of their suggestions. That said, it is an entirely reasonable expectation that we should reinvest enough to improve the squad overall. It will be down to Gio and Wilson to decide how best to use the budget they are given.This thread and others are full of people saying we need to be signing £4 or £5m players and thinking the players we’ve signed are backups. That we still need a quality centre back, goal keeper, striker, attacking midfielder and left back! When everything our club, manager and board says and does shows otherwise yet still they expect it!
We signed a striker for almost £2m yet some people seem to think he’s going to be 3rd or 4th choice as we’re going to get an even better striker.
We brought at prospect from Bayern with an option to buy but people don’t think he’s ready and that he won’t be part of the plans.
We’ve given McGreggor a new contract and kept McLaughlin, rightly or wrongly, and fans think we’re going to spend “a big chunk of the Bassey fee” on a goal keeper.
We have about 50 midfielders on the books yet fans think we are going to sign a £10m “marquee signing” to make the difference.
Everything that has happened the last 5 years has shown we work on a model of signing players for relatively low fees, keep the core together and try and sell for a profit. Even Kent was only signed after we had him a full season and knew he would fit in. £4m appears to be out ceiling and only if we have someone who we know can be a game changer.
Have I missed anything? I just can’t understand how so many of our fans don’t realise these realities!