It’s worth adding that we don’t know what happened behind closed doors in the last window. It’s possible a top class DM was identified (eg the guy from Italy), along with Kudus who has taken to the PL like a duck to water, and the club decided not to pursue them due to value for money...
Caicedo went and did very little in Belgium first too. Baleba will be a good player and if our ambitions were to be mid table it would be fine to have him playing quite regularly as he learns. But, by Barber’s own admission, RDZ has raised our ambitions and so we need someone with some of CB’s...
I had the same reaction before it cut to sky. The way he said it 4 times. He’s a passionate guy with a clear vision for how he wants to play. In midfield in particular he doesn’t have the players to play how he wants to - and at Fb as well probably. He’ll be frustrated about that.
I’m not as sure. We’ll sign players but I suspect they’ll all be investments. Many quite exciting investments maybe (Barco, Bhardji) but it feels like he wants some oven ready options as well and I’m not so sure he’ll get those