Surely the cost of bringing those three in is way over this £6m figure? It's possibly closer to £10m with every cost accounted for (not that the extra costs wouldn't have been incurred with different signings, but still). I think Alcaraz and Robles were alright signings on the face of it, but for £5m I think we could have done a fair bit better than Kone, which is where the vast majority of the money (and £50k a week from now on, apparently) has gone.
Tbh, with all the talk of "world market" and Champions League football when RM came in, I thought we'd be "rolling the dice" a lot more, rather than playing it safe with arguably "proven" players from a poor Wigan side. While at times "playing it safe" arguably worked well for Moyes and he always had his "favourites", such as Neville, Osman, Hibbert, he was also capable of bringing in the exciting talents needed to compete at the top end of the league to go with them. That's what I want to see next from RM, unless he thinks he has all the talent he needs here and only needs to bulk up the squad, in which case good luck to him.
People love to group large numbers of posters' opinions into particular, convenient brackets for their dismissal and ridicule, so I will reiterate that I'm not having a go at RM, just expressing a bit of concern. I could still end up ecstatic with our transfer window in a month's time.
