We're nowhere near in FFP danger. On that front we could have spent and got ahead of the teams in trouble. We could even have made a cheeky, cheap offer for players at clubs who obviously have to sell.
I'd accept the argument that the market was so depressed that you couldn't buy because no...
I'm going to presume that he wasn't just doing a bw2 and yelling 'JUST SIGN SOMEONE, HOW HARD CAN IT BE!?' into a void and, instead, suggesting players he liked.
They might not have been available. They might have been too expensive or come with silly wage demands. They might have been injured...
To this and your other post, RDZ has been punching above his weight all season.
He's lost Caicedo, Mac Allister, Enciso, March and Estupinian for all or part of the start of the season and has recently not had Fati, Adingra, Mitoma, Veltman and Lamptey either.
We have a WAY worse squad this...
You might well giggle but the style of coach I like - extrovert, passionate, unafraid to get in the ref's face and most of all ambitious - are never fully backed at this club. First Poyet, now De Zerbi.
Dull, functional, introverted yes men like Hyppia and Potter excite me about as much as...
Spot on.
The club not backing our best coach ever after making over 150 million in sales in the summer is mind boggling. Starting to doubt for the first time since Hyppia.