He's not really done anything anywhere though has he? Not particularly impressed with this as a signing. More a squad filler if there's any truth in it.
I don't get your sense of superiority and righteousness because you some how think it's cool or novel to be devoid of any humanism. It's not that change is painful it's just that a quick fire sale of your best players that brought us here to this level and gave us great times and could still be part of that is. You want wholesale changes over night and probably wouldn't care if we sold the entire squad every 6 months (hyperbole). Sounds very much like someone playing football manager of FIFA. Maybe it's because you haven't slept for a month and have been on this thread the entire time. Most of all I think you know what you say gets under peoples skins and thrive on it. Making you champion WUM.
To some degree I'm not as concerned about individual players leaving as I would have been under previous managers. Not because I'm naïve enough to think that losing talent doesn't matter, but more because I think we're evolving into a team where the style of our play is the real star. Man U seemed to be dazzled by the one touch, high tempo passing game the whole team played. They were frustrated by the way we pressed and closed them down early and they didn't like the way our players ran at them with no respect for reputations. Yes you do need quality players to play like that, but I think Silva will only bring in players who can adapt easily to that style. The difference now is we have an effective playing style with less big names, rather than previously when we had a few (relatively) big names propping up a completely inferior playing style.
See what you say makes sense and isn't all high and mighty, arrogant and cocky. I'd don't mind change. Just not all in a week. I'd rather do it in summer when time is on our side. Players leaving this late in the window leaves us very little time to bring in replacements. We need additions not just replacements.
The problem is this time we don't have the luxury of waiting. What happens now will define our season and big decisions have to be made immediately.
