..I get the funding issue. I reckon there was a dependency on moving Barkley out to fund any more incoming. It can't be a coincidence that we agreed £35m for Barkley and bid the same fee (reported by Portuguese outlet Marca) for Raul Jimenez.
I don't have a problem with that, though. We'd spent up. In hindsight, Koeman might not have been so reliant on Giroud. He might have prioritised a forward as opposed to so many similar midfield types. Things clearly haven't gone perfectly but that's what happens in a window.
I think Koeman's frustration will be that he was promised he didn't have to rely on sales mate.
While I'm not mad at the club for wanting to stay within their means, Moshiri has publicly said before that funding wasn't an issue. So to not get one of the manager's key targets in for that reason doesn't sit right with me at all.