I don’t think it’s massively reactionary for the first questions of the night to be one’s scrutinising the ownership. This is two January’s in a row where circumstances have left us with a depleted squad and it’s not massively controversial or unfair to be unhappy with the owner’s approach to the squad building in the time in between.
We’ve gone from Champions to a fanbase fraught with anxiety as we’ve now had multiple transfer windows that simply haven’t addressed enough issues within the squad. We can talk about elite youth team players all we want but realistically we will do extremely well if 3 of the current young players on the fringes end up being important first team players. It’ll likely be less than that. We’ve had enough games with an exposed squad now to see where there’s a need that only transfers can address.
This may seem reactionary, it’s only mid January, but it’s clear we won’t sign anyone of note in the window and it’s starting to get harder and harder to say that the ownership have made almost exclusively excellent decisions for the last few years - contrarily, it more seems that they’ve banked their goodwill and intend on living off it for a while longer yet. The summer window was a huge missed opportunity and the owners have been myopic and inert for 18 months now.
