No i think the squad needed balancing and incremental improvement, also better luck with injuries - i think we achieved it or are likely to. My concern presently is a lack of creativity - that were the lack of balance is right now, selling young Anthony does little to improve it.
Change is fine, but it should be incremental, we had a number of squad places we needed to improve on:
Onanna for Delph
Vinarge - Kenny
McNeill - Sigurrdson
Coady and JT - nominal to improve the back line.
Its about making those squad place viable and useful - because they haven't been for the investment.
In the vacum we still have replacing Richarlison - we have a ready made replacement - Gordon, we've already gotten 52 mill out of that squad place. Loosing Gordon is a body blow to far in the wrong area of the pitch with two weeks left in the window in an area of the pitch we cant afford to be light.
Imagine trying to go for other players now, with them knowing we have 40-50 mill burning a hole in our pockets and cant score or create for love nor money - its fine saying sure we can but other players, we are at the markets end now, there is less availability and clubs are going to rinse us.
Change should be incremental, its a process rather then an event.
Building a forward line in the last two weeks of the window is a fools errand and an unnecessary and honestly stupid risk to take.
For this reason selling Gordon is a hard no from me.
