I'd love for us to be at the level where we could be in the market for those players because I think there's a couple things at play there: those players are the closest there are to a "sure thing" that there is right now and if we aren't in for players like that, another team that directly competes with us will be so our loss becomes their gain unless we unearth some academy or youth gems that no one knows about, or unless we turn a good player, into a great one (Salah).
Don't think anyone thinks we're going to spend 100mill on a player/buy a star, without having to sell one of our big players.
But if we do plan to sign someone like that for that money, and move on a current star, then so be it, let's consider that.
Buying a player in the 20-40mill bracket, and turning them into a better player - we've been good at that.
Or I should say, Jürgen and his staff have been good at.
Mane & Salah are good examples.
That would not be mega bucks.
And we've also had success paying a good bit less, like on Robbo, Matip, and have those guys playing XI football.
Jürgen has a record of improving players hugely. And a good job for FGS that he has been able to do that.
This is not to say we don't bring young players through, and Jones, Elliot, Morton etc. have contributed this year and will continue to.
Yes we have a lot of very very good players. But do I think we can still improve the squad - definitely.
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