Look, I'm not advocating spending for spending's sake but how many times this summer did they get a bid accepted and get turned down by the player? We wasted some time on targets that were above us and failed to adapt quickly enough to actually bring in signings who wanted to play for us. The...
The difference is the hope Connor, the hope kills. We knew under Kenwright and Moyes where we stood in transfer season. A Billionaire owner and extra money from the TV deal gave me hope that we would have money spent on top of sales.
I know when I was thinking about the first summer under Moshiri and flush with TV cash that I was hoping we'd only spend about 5 million. Lots of reasons to be happy.
I'm actually shocked. What has happened this summer? Why haven't we been able to get deals done and spend money?
I'm alright with what we've got but the manager has said he wanted more and we've clearly been pursuing deals but nothing happened in the last few weeks.