Anyone who thought that we would hit the heights of last season with so many new players is frankly living in a dream world.
It's been shown quite clearly in some excellent analysis by Tomkins that very few players have a big impact in their first season, and amongst the "big" stars the figure is still only 26% of big transfers that can be said to have hit the ground running, which pretty much negates the argument about spending on "proven" big names, like Falcao and Di Maria.
In fact the hysteria from some when they went to utd well over the top.
http://tomkinstimes.com/2014/11/a-decade-of-big-club-transfer-spending/Add to that the fact we were only just compliant with FFP, yet some still say that the owners didn't spend enough which is patently nonsensical.
There are problems with recruitment in my view, but I've seen dozens of posters, many of whom should know better repeatedly throw around the claim that player X is sh*te, that we over paid for player Y (which seems odd when they also say we never spend) or other bullshit.
I understand the need to vent that some have, but it's misplaced.
There are no quick fixes, throwing money at the problem won't help, not least because of FFP, slagging off BR won't help and slagging the players won't help.
Moores and Parry left us needing to make up nearly 20 years of commercial expansion, a new ground and needing to bring many aspects of the club up to date, not to mention the players we missed out on because Parry didn't think they were worth it (Ronaldo and Vidic to name just 2).
Then we had the h&g "era" which very nearly fu**ed us over.
It's not what people want to hear, but it takes time to fix these problems.
Even city with their billionaire oil owners took a few years to build a team, chelsea for all their money have had "droughts".
We are where we are because we deserve to be.
That's down to everyone at the club: manager, owners, committee, players.
The difference is that many of the players being slagged off will come good, and perhaps people should take a step back and look at what has happened since we last won the league before rushing to judge and condemn.