What is your definition of experience?...CL Champions? National experience? Premier League experience? Champions League experience?
From what I understand from your post we don't need big names but we need players with experience.
I am a little at a loss to figure out where we are going to pull players with experience from the top of the game from non-mid table teams, that are not big names?
Players from Bayern's, RM, PSG's and Barca's bench?...will they cut it in the Premiership? I don't know.
Champions league and domestic title races which invariably mean the same thing outside of England anyway; and when I say Champions League, I don't mean token appearences, I mean regular latter stage experience. Would players from Bayern, RM, PSG and Barca's bench cut it in the Premiership? They have in the past. It's not like we're limiting ourselves to signing only English players so these foreigners had to have settled to become established EPL players. Why should the same be untrue for the more experienced players around Europe?
When I say "It's not about the name", what I mean is it's not about avoiding the name or pursuing the name, in that the name is irrelevant, it's about the experience and talent levels. If that person is a big name player then good for them but that's not why you sign them. We should neither be afraid nor enamoured with their stardom or lack thereof; we should only be concerned with what they bring to the team and what they'd bring to the team would be in excess of what someone from a mid-table club with not CL or title race experience brings to our team. In short, some fans on here want a Marquee signing for the sake of it. I don't want a marquee signing for the sake of it, I just want players who are more talented and more experienced than what we have, not
less which is what this Summer has been about so far.
So the point I was making above was saying just because you can't replace someone who scored 31 goals in 33 appearences doesn't mean you settle for a 15 goals a season striker, you look beyond the goals. You look for the person who scored the most goals, who has the best off ball movement, who can set up their own chances, who can lay off the best chances for other members of the team to score, who has experience playing in big games, who has experience playing against the world's best players - in other words, there's more to replacing Luis than simply looking at his amount of goals and deciding he's irreplaceable and just because those players are few and far between should not mean you at least try to sign them.
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