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Which summer signings were a mistake?

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None have really impressed as such and many came highly recommended.

Klaassen has been the biggest disappointment.

If every new signing looks below the expected requirement, who's fault is that?

Reminds me a bit of AVB at Spurs, he just could not get a tune of his expensively assembled team.
 
I honestly think they are all good players but for some of them it should have been 'either' not 'and'. As much as I like Sigi and he is starting to show some quality here and there, that £45m could have been chucked at Belotti or some other forward around the £50m mark, especially since we already had signed Klaassen and Rooney by that point.
 

Been disappointed with almost all the new signings so far tbh but the most disappointed in so far are probably Klaassen, Siggurdsson, Sandro and Martina.

Klaassen - looks like he is going to be an expensive flop.
Siggy - Way overpriced and just looks to be an average player. Might see a better side of him if the manager actually plays him in his best position.
Sandro - Great price but has done nothing but run round like a headless chicken but getting nowhere so far. Might come good when he gets used to the prem.
Martina - It was my understanding initially that he was brought in just as a backup for emergencies. Not good enough to be playing in the first team. His crosses are like Rugby kicks and he ends up mostly out of position and giving very little help to the position he is actually meant to be playing in.
Should also put in here Ronald Koeman as this season and the back end of last season he has been dire and doesn't seem to have a clue what he is doing. Everyone out of position, no regular starting 11, no plan, unable to install confidence in his team. Doesn't even seem that interested in Everton tbh.

The ones i have been the most impressed with so far are Pickford and Vlasic. Both look high quality signings.
 
Too early to judge categorically any of our signings yet.

The bit of business I don't understand is paying 45m for Sigurrdson after signing players that could already play there and not signing a striker.

I did not want Giroud either and am glad he didn't come, although that still could happen in January.
Giroud doesn't start often enough for Arsenal and there is a reason for that(more effective as impact sub than as a starter) and he does not bring pace to a team which is already short enough of that.
 

The biggest problem was having Wayne, Iceland and Davy all wanting to play the same position and all being thrust into the same team. So we are getting the worst of all three of them.

And it doesn't help how bad Schneiderlin has been. That may be the one thing that has exacerbated the whole situation the most. Didn't see that coming, to be honest
 
None have really impressed as such and many came highly recommended.

Klaassen has been the biggest disappointment.

If every new signing looks below the expected requirement, who's fault is that?

Reminds me a bit of AVB at Spurs, he just could not get a tune of his expensively assembled team.

This.

It's a virtual mirror image of when AVB spunked the Bale money on players, but didn't seem to really know where to play any of them, then tired to shoe horn them in every week.

Apart from the mess that is Martina, Klaasen to me seems like the biggest mistake, especially when we already had Tom Clev, to pass the ball sideways and backwards.
 
The biggest problem was having Wayne, Iceland and Davy all wanting to play the same position and all being thrust into the same team. So we are getting the worst of all three of them.

And it doesn't help how bad Schneiderlin has been. That may be the one thing that has exacerbated the whole situation the most. Didn't see that coming, to be honest

Its simple mate, Schneiderlin and Gana cannot play together. It has to be one or the other.
 

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