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Vegan Beast | Tash said:
I'm not saying we should sign a crap back up player, I'm simply saying we don't need to be spending near 20m on back up fullbacks.

If we get Targett, which would be my first choice, if he gets injured then we have multiple players that can cover that position - Trippier, burn, manquillo.

I would like a decent back up, but we don't need to spend 21m on this Madrid kid as back up.

I get your point. I understand. We have money, so we should spend it on making the squad strong, I'm saying buying targett and this kid seems a bit like Overkill.

Are we in a position where we start spending 15-20m on back up options? Do we need to spend that much?

We wont have an unlimited budget. This is my assumption, but it's a reasonable assumption considering the owners have said this is going to be a slow and steady process, which we're going to approach carefully.

We have other areas in our team that need strengthening - Mainly CB's and strikers, which may cost 100m combined. A left back is important for us, but do you really think we'll have the budget to spend 35-40m on lb's on top of all the other things we'll need?

We don't need two first team quality LB's, just a main choice and a back up. Like I said before, Targett and this kid sounds like overkill.
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Not being funny, but I looked beyond Man City's strongest 15 or 16 and there is a dip in quality (relatively speaking). Or look at Liverpool; their midfield reserves are Keita, Milner and Oxlade-Chamberlain. If we signed any of those, as an aspirational side, I'd be disappointed. It's not possible to have super-high quality reserves. these two are at the absolute pinnacle and we're still talking about some average PL players. I can't be bothered to look, but I imagine most of us haven't even heard of some of the reserves even at Arsenal, Leicester, West Ham.

Our problem has been having Championship-level players in the bloody starting lineup, a useless reserve team and a hopeless youth system producing naff all. All of this combined with an utter clown running the loans, it puts us light years behind so to get a top 4 PL XI on the pitch, we need 9 more players. That will take time and money.
 
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