We won't get much, in PL terms, for players we want to offload, and if we spread our budget around too thinly to try and replace half the team or more the players we get in won't be any better than what we've got. Spending big on a couple of really good players - really good ones - isn't...
This. But with CH still in charge please.
I'm rather afraid we may have got some players on 'highest earner' contracts, which could be a problem. But that's our own fault anyway. We - or rather TB - will have to live with it.
Oh, it's rested very nicely, thank you. Better than you realise! Hughton's teams play more attacking and exciting football when their players are better than the other team's. Simples.
Strange: I thought we played with far more attacking intent and fluency in The Championship. Perhaps Mourinho and Moyes are managers who can't change, but what does that prove about CH?
Maybe, just maybe CH knows what he has to do with the tools he has got to stay in the PL until we can gradually draft in better ones.
It is just possible that if we had the likes of De Bruyne, Ramsey, Mkhataryan, Ericsson or Henderson (not that we're actually going to get any of those, of...
If we buy 6 or 7 they won't be; that's what we did last summer - it didn't work then, and won't work now. Two (or three absolute max) of quality needed now, not a job lot of wannabees.
Why would he do any better, playing on his own without a team mate within 40 yards, and none ever busting a gut to come up and join him? Andone and Locadia might score a few more goals if they were getting the right service and support.
We need a proper midfield. That is our number one priority...