You're not just responding to what I'm saying, you're picking and choosing bits and pieces to suit the point that you want to make, while ignoring the parts that don't gel with what you're saying
I do want us to bring down the average age of the squad, but I've not said that our previous financial woes come down only to the age of the players signed. In fact I have repeatedly been very clear that the issue I'm talking about is that we were consistently signing players on far higher wages than they would ever be worth, regardless of age.
Every club makes bad signings, we are not the only team to have ever signed a load of players who aren't good enough. The difference with us that caused a death spiral was us giving all of those players contracts upwards of 80k a week, making it impossible to move them on and recoup any money spent bringing them in.
As for Alcaraz, to say he's failed in the PL and Serie A is harsh imo. By all accounts he was Southamptons best player while he was there. Juve loaned him, didn't play him and then declined to sign him permanently, but that doesn't mean much to me as Juve have been a basket case club for a while.
If we look at his transfer history since leaving Argentina - Southampton bought him for 10m and sold him to flamengo for 15m after he lost his place in the team. Flamengo then (hopefully) move him on to us for 15m again after a new manager comes in and says there is no role for him in his set up. A year spent playing for Everton doesn't see his value suddenly tank. If we were unable to get a fee of 10-15m for Alcaraz a year from now it would come down to whoever is in charge of transfer negotiations at Everton not doing their job effectively.
