Oh I don’t disagree. But there is a school of thought that if we spent the same but only on players 25m+ (so fewer in a quality over quantity sense) that we’d be better off. I don’t think that was meant for this summer. More when we already had a premier league squad in theory and needed to make clear improvementsI'd say that our record with making signings that break our tyransfer record is pretty bad and those at more middling amounts much better
I can’t say I can think of who we could have got instead of Archer for 25-30m who would want to join and fit our wage structure. I did start making a list the day before archer signed. I stopped because I had added commentary notes and next to archer I had written “not possible”. I guess it technically wasn’t from Sheffield United at least
The conclusion I was coming to was that we didn’t really have a chance with the others. They were a mix of players who either joined much bigger clubs and/or were pretty obviously moving within one country and likely not interested in moving to a different nation to play in.
