So there is only two players in the world who fit our system 🤣
We have a ageing midfield already and unless Curtis or Harvey break through rapidly we need at least two quality players so why not one this season.
Better than trying to assimilate two in one season. 🤷♂️
I don't think teams go around shopping for players based on the single criteria of ''the player fits our system''. There is more than this criteria in play when you decide on a transfer and this is why there are priorities and, in turn, priorities are the reason that make you wait for a player or jump into the market earlier than you had planned for that player. For instance, imagine that we had decided to go for De Vrij or Koulibaly (plug any other name you want) in summer 2017 because fans were thinking ''there has to be more than 1 player that fits our system, why are we going into the season with a world class CB signing?''.
I agree that we have an ageing midfield with a couple of injury prone players, but we have seen over and over again how this team is run. We have targets, when they become available and the timing is right we go for them. The reason for this is simple, when you wait to get the player you want and truly need, you stand to win much more than what you lost in the meantime, while buying players out of pure immediate needs will lose you much more than you'll win. I think that we can confidently say that Bellingham is a priority target of ours, but we can't play if there's no game (BVB wont sell this summer). Who are our other targets and are they available? We don't know.
The bottom line is that we do make mistakes (the CB crisis a couple of seasons ago comes to mind), but overall we are a better run club than 95% of the other clubs in Europe and the renewal that a lot of people are talking about when it comes to the midfield shouldn't be such a big fear. A few months ago there was big talk (fear mongering) about the forward's department renewal and before that the defensive line's renewal and both of those things are happening at a satisfactory rate and with satisfactory quality being added to the team. I don't see why the midfield would be any different. We are one game into the season and some people are already talking like the season is disastrous. Lets wait and see
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