Would suggest it’s more than ‘balanced’ - far more successes than failures, particularly in the last 3-4 seasons. And guess what - we’ll continue to sign players that turn out to be not good enough (or in ‘dud’ Izquierdo’s case, get ruined by injury) - every club does :shrug:
No, not a coincidence at all and sure we all have more faith in the current set-up - most areas of the club are improving as Tony and team get 'used' to being in the PL. To the scouting and recruitment team (hired by Tony) at the time they obviously looked like players that might make it so we...
This. Probably just me but I find the hindsight, gloating and insults towards him and the recruitment team pretty distasteful. Anyone involved in hiring multiple people knows they don’t all work out, for a multitude of reasons.