To be honest mate I think any manager coming in working under the rigidity of the transfer strategy we are working would be destined to fail, we may see the initial up turn in performances but in my opinion we'd sink back to the level of where we are at.
Where are the proven winners in our squad ?
I look at our squad whilst its full of potential, its lacking in quality, because quality costs money both in terms of transfer fee and wages.
Proven winners? Balotelli,Toure and Milner are all recent "proven winners" of our own league - it doesn't guarantee anything.
Your answer to "buy quality" doesn't work when the four teams above you can outspend you.
What is the point of City buying Aguero, United buying the 2nd choice version of Aguero, Chelsea buying the 3rd choice version of Aguero, Arsenal buying 4th choice version of Aguero and us being left with the 5th on the list? How will that enable us to beat City?
We need to find a way of improving the hit-rate of our transfers and using the money more efficiently.
Take the case of Borini. He has flopped but, of the 12million we spent, Sunderland have paid us 8 million rising to 10million. Which means it hasn't cost us that much and leaves the manager with more to spend in the next window.
With your method, if we had bought a different player - older, say, and on high wages, we wouldn't be able to move him on and therefore a lot more money would be flushed down the pan which would hamper our other transfer windows.
So the problem is less to do with the "restrictions" and more to do with picking the right player sin the first place.
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