Originally Posted by The_don1:
“The flipping of young players going forward has to be a route we go down. It's a fantastic way of adding another revenue stream. We not only have the resources to find the best young players but have a top class facility for them to join. We cannot only judge the academy going forward on how many players it produces for us. That's a very old fashioned way of looking at it. We are now at a level (or should be) that really only special players make it and those players only come around once in a while. But we should be more then able to develop players who are good enough for most clubs in Europe and make some money from transfers”
“The flipping of young players going forward has to be a route we go down. It's a fantastic way of adding another revenue stream. We not only have the resources to find the best young players but have a top class facility for them to join. We cannot only judge the academy going forward on how many players it produces for us. That's a very old fashioned way of looking at it. We are now at a level (or should be) that really only special players make it and those players only come around once in a while. But we should be more then able to develop players who are good enough for most clubs in Europe and make some money from transfers”
Oh yes, I agree. I just didn't agree with the tone of the article, it seemed to suggest we'd had a good transfer window.
As you said in a previous post, we spent far too much time chasing Stones. It was reminiscent of our pursuit of Rooney a couple of seasons ago. Then we did nothing about our problem in DM. No cover for Matic apart from Mikel, and nobody to play alongside Matic for games that require an extra ball winner in midfield.
Mourinho is meant to have put in his "wants list" of possible players or the positions he wished to strengthen in April. I would have thought we could have done better. Players have changed hands that we could have used, How about Vidal for example, fantastic player in my opinion, and he didn't look expensive at £26/28m.
I'm pleased we got Pedro, but even that sounds slightly fortunate. Man Utd (or LVG) just dithered around and lost him. Signing Falcao was ok, a gamble with little downside. But we didn't have much competition for his signature, so it wasn't a major coup.
Rahman should also be ok if we've done our homework properly, and Begovic was definitely a great signing after the loss of Cech.
Ii guess it wasn't that bad a window, but a DM and a CB should have been in there somewhere. I just feel a bit underwhelmed after months of speculation.




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