Last season was extremely good under RM but it did start to go off in the last few games when we lost the CL spot. When a team is right up and in the Europe Comps then one get the right class of players in to further the club. Apart from the colossal fee to me that is why Rom signed after his loan, McCarthey came in as well and Besic, there was great potential there and so it has proved in the most part. But Rom made a right cockup on the other signings of Alcaraz and McGeady.
So into this season and it has all gone pear shaped for various reasons. The club is struggling, all and sundry can see this. As a player would you sign for such a club right down in the lower half, relegation battle, can't score goals, etc, etc. The answer is no, who wants to join what amounts to an awful club ( we are no doubt of that ATM) no one and conversely your better players will wish to kick this in to touch and join a club with better prospects. So yes in another year or two Rom could be thinking along those lines along with perhaps McCarthey, Garbutt, Stones, Barkley.