They aren’t signing Philogene. Delap hasn’t proven himself in the championship really. Szmodics has had one good championship season. Albeit a very good one where he was top scorer. It’s interesting how things can be interpreted when it comes to players who some think we should have in for / were beaten too.They do seem to be going down the route of signing players who have proven themselves at Championship level with their signings/targets (Greaves, Delap, Philogene now Szmodics) and someone like Johnson aswell who has a reasonable amount of PL experience (can see him having a similar path as KWP when he left Spurs for us)
So far we’ve added more PL experience in Taylor and Lallana and probably not as highly regarded lower league talent in Wood and Edwards. Still a month til start of the season but on paper at least I like the direction they are taking.