There's the crux of why we never score the goals we should be; how much did Van Persil cost? De Maria !!
Forget the bullshit that foreign players won't come to northern teams. Look at Manchester City !!
If we paid the going rate and wages that is required for "strikers" we wouldn't be in this situation, regardless of the team having some less than ordinary defenders/goalies. Who's to blame......... FSG or the "committee". 
That definitely doesn't help, but even if there wage restrictions, there are still quality options available.
We had an aggressive front three last season, mobile players who worked the channels, run in behind, harried defenders. Speed and aggression.
We signed Lambert who is neither fast or aggressive, he doesn't have the energy for either. We bought Balotelli who used to be mobile, fast and aggressive in his early years at Inter, but for some reason wants to be Ibrahimovic and is doing very badly at it, though he he's not as bad as people have said, he's still been poor though.
From the transfer window to on the pitch, everything seems disorganised and thoughtless, thats the worrying thing. Not the results, which are bad enough, but the underlying performance which suggests things will get worse before they get better.
I can accept financial limitations but when our signings are so nonsensical, its hard to swallow.
