This makes me laugh. Love it. Sums up all that is wrong with the BPL and modern football culture. GHod, imagine relying on last summer's massively expensive signings? Surely the huge investment we made last summer in players that struggled to hit the ground running should be chucked in the bin this summer and a load more money spent on equally expensive new toys to get excited about, before they too struggle to get to grips with the PL in their first season.
Everyone was really excited by Soldado last summer. People say "we need a new striker". We bought a £26m goal machine last summer, we're gonna bin him off now because he struggled last season? He's looked really sharp in pre-season. Same with Lamela.
We have a lot of quality in the squad already. The key for me was to shore up parts of the squad like left-back and centre-back. Ben Davies is a solid signing and Eric Dier is another good investment. There's no great urgency this summer as we haven't lost anyone we didn't want to. So we're playing the waiting game for the right players.
Agreed