I think we are in danger of agreeing! ;-)
My point is that, since Gus left (and you know I'm not his biggest fan), our recruitment has taken a nose dive. I see very little evidence that things improved in the last window either, although not a lot to go on (and that's partly my point).
IMHO...
I stand by consistently awful. All teams make recruitment mistakes, all teams get some player acquisitions right, it's just that our mistakes are so very frequent, and our 'gems' are oh too rare. Do you honestly think we've spent our transfer £'s wisely in the last 3 windows? Honestly?