Quote Originally Posted by lamballana
"If you'd offered us top 8 at the beginning of the season we'd have snapped it up. I think top 6 is achievable if we are lucky with injuries and invest again in the window".
I saw this on another thread and I started thinking about how much money we have spent and, basically, have we spent it wisely?
If you think that Lambert cost £1m, and many people thought that was too high at the time, have our subsequent purchases given us anything like value for money? I suppose the very fact that I'm asking the question suggests that I don't think they have.
If you take the Hull game, no Ramirez, no Yoshida, a cameo from Osvaldo, probably Wanyama's poorest game to date, Rodriguez ok but not much more, Mayuka not at the club, Forren just weird and so on. And yet we were superb.
Thats about £50m worth of players give or take a few. I really think that for that money we should expect to get players who are better than what is already at the club otherwise what is the point? Obviously, there are exceptions. Clyne was a great buy, and Lovren of course.
I don't want to sound like I'm moaning at a time when things have never been better at the club but I genuinely believe that if we had spent that kind of money more wisely we could be top of the league by now given how well we have progressed this season. Maybe the jury is still out on all those players. It is still too early to really talk about Osvaldo for example and Yoshida would be a starter but for Fonte's great run of form.
At the start of our 'journey' we bought very wisely, players like Hammond and Chaplow who were perfect for the job that was required of them at that time. Now, I don't think we are being quite so wise and it sometimes appears that we spend for the sake of it. We all get highly agitated during the transfer windows and I was as keen as anyone to see some high-profile signings. But maybe we just don't need the big names. Maybe spending £2m on an 'unknown' such as Michu or even a lower league player with promise might be a better way of doing it. For example, had we been a premier league club at the time with the kind of money we have now, we would never have even looked at Lambert and look what we would have missed.
"If you'd offered us top 8 at the beginning of the season we'd have snapped it up. I think top 6 is achievable if we are lucky with injuries and invest again in the window".
I saw this on another thread and I started thinking about how much money we have spent and, basically, have we spent it wisely?
If you think that Lambert cost £1m, and many people thought that was too high at the time, have our subsequent purchases given us anything like value for money? I suppose the very fact that I'm asking the question suggests that I don't think they have.
If you take the Hull game, no Ramirez, no Yoshida, a cameo from Osvaldo, probably Wanyama's poorest game to date, Rodriguez ok but not much more, Mayuka not at the club, Forren just weird and so on. And yet we were superb.
Thats about £50m worth of players give or take a few. I really think that for that money we should expect to get players who are better than what is already at the club otherwise what is the point? Obviously, there are exceptions. Clyne was a great buy, and Lovren of course.
I don't want to sound like I'm moaning at a time when things have never been better at the club but I genuinely believe that if we had spent that kind of money more wisely we could be top of the league by now given how well we have progressed this season. Maybe the jury is still out on all those players. It is still too early to really talk about Osvaldo for example and Yoshida would be a starter but for Fonte's great run of form.
At the start of our 'journey' we bought very wisely, players like Hammond and Chaplow who were perfect for the job that was required of them at that time. Now, I don't think we are being quite so wise and it sometimes appears that we spend for the sake of it. We all get highly agitated during the transfer windows and I was as keen as anyone to see some high-profile signings. But maybe we just don't need the big names. Maybe spending £2m on an 'unknown' such as Michu or even a lower league player with promise might be a better way of doing it. For example, had we been a premier league club at the time with the kind of money we have now, we would never have even looked at Lambert and look what we would have missed.
