We are a long way off of “doing an Everton”
however, we have made changes in our profile of players we are signing. We have gone from younger signings with potential to now adding in some ready made players. But this change isn’t risking the stability of the club… we’ve been cute with our older signings… Coutinho, we got a massive discount, fee and wages. Digne, was a cheap buy, and the wages are reflection of his status in world football. Carlos, was a cheap buy on wages that are 100k a week. That’s good value for a defender that helped his team get CL football … he’s cheaper than our other option, Tarkowski who wants 120k a week for the pedigree of helping his team get relegated. All these players are 29 tops.. it’s not an ideal age for the sake of resale … but its an ideal age to get the most out of them. This could help us in the next 3/4 years to move away from the midtable group of teams to being a euro contender. If that is successful, our younger players will be peaking and ready to take over to push us up further in the table… hopefully.
As long as we are still making top younger signings like Boubs, then I’m happy. However, if we sign Suarez, I’d be totally meh about… he’s done at this level, we don’t need that crap