I'm not quite sure what you mean Debs.
We needed a goalkeeper Brendan brought in Bogdan, Jürgen has brought in Loris
We needed a defender Brendan brought in Gomez , Jürgen has brought in Matip
We needed a midfield player Brendan brought in Milner, Jürgen brought in Grujic.
The problem under Brendan was not that he didn't target the problem areas, but that he didn't target his signings i.e. that they seemed more opportunistic rather than specific. That we struggled to bring in top quality players and had to settle for who was willing to come rather than who we really wanted... bit similar to the problem we now have with Gotze.
Ok I get you now.
We needed a starting level keeper that was better than Migs but got a number 2 instead.
Did we need another CB when we already had Skrtel, Sakho, Lovren, Toure?
If we did then why buy another youngster when we already had Ilori? Now we do need another one as Skrtel hasn't done well under Jürgen, Toure is at the end of his contract and Sakho is suspended. Gomez is still a youngster who's missed nearly a full season and Ilori is out of contract so an experienced player is required and we've got one in Matip.
We needed a central midfielder to replace Stevie and Milner hasn't been one of those since his youth days. Grujic may be young but at least he's a central midfielder.
As you say all opportunistic rather than what we needed, now we've got what we needed.
As for Gotze, sure we wouldn't have targetted him if he hadn't made himself available but unlike Sanchez, we won't spend all summer making doe eyes at him and missing out on other targets. We've already moved onto our next positional needs which are a LB and a more experienced central midfielder.
It's chalk and cheese mate.
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