Cant say I am not disappointed about this window but to be honest it was always going to be one of the worst when you consider the WC finishing just before it opened. You can see by Chelsea's spending that player valuations have gone to shit and they are one of the biggest contributors to that over the last 9 months especially. Not to mention the shambles that is FFP.
I personally don't think missing out on CL this year will do too much damage in the grand scheme of things but if we are going to miss out it would be good to get into the EL and not the Conference League..id much rather finish below the qualification for that bollocks.
I still think that playing the way and the games we did last year massively contributed to the exhaustion of our main stay players and the lack of rest wont have done us much good. Yes, we need to upgrade the squad and we are now relying on our youngsters to play more games because of the drop off rather than slowly increasing their game time, and we are probably not playing some of those same youngsters in their ideal positions, but we are having to make do for now. No one could have predicted the extent of the drop off in any case and not 7 months ago, most were on cloud nine at what this team were achieving.
Overspending in January?? I'm not sure that is the best way forward. We aren't about to be relegated, but some of the Twatterati want everything yesterday and not buying what they want when their plastic fan friends get what they want just seems to turn them into brats spitting their dummies out in public. Classy.
Injuries to our attackers has been the biggest blow in my opinion. If you have Diaz, Jota, and to a limited extent Firmino firing goals in for us I would wager that our points tally now wouldn't be as low. This also allows new players like Nunez and Gakpo to be given time to bed in rather than expecting them to hit the ground running immediately. We did this with Robbo and look how he turned out.
I am still undecided about FSG because this window shouldn't have been seen as the benchmark. Its disheartening to some fans when they see other teams spending like they have but in fairness, they have mostly overspent on players like Enzo. Time will tell if £105.6m will be worth the money, time will tell if £88million for Mudryk is a sensible buy and although it would have been seen by some of our fans as a dick waving statement if we had done it, there are still those who moan and bitch about Nunez costing £65 million or whatever it was just because Sky or their mates say he is a waste of money.
You cant win. Some people aren't happy unless they are miserable.
There will also be some considerable talent available on lower fee's or free that aren't at the moment come the summer when we have space in our squad again.
I'm going to hold my judgement until after the summer now. We cant do anything about it now anyway so the pointless 'roundaboutery' on a few of our threads is doing nothing but raising our blood pressure. What is the point of being miserable about something when you have no control over it anyway? None of us know what is going on behind the scenes. If any of us knew for certain what the plans were, there wouldn't be the roundaboutery.
If FSG don't pull something out of the bag in the summer - it needs to be a bloody big bag by the way, then my feelings about them will most certainly change, but for now, and looking at what they HAVE done for the club, I reserve my own insignificant judgement.
