gaffs
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Not 200m.. you can extrapolate it to £400m and judge the previous one too.
- Antony - waste of money, around £30m fair value
- Casemiro - good but overpriced due to a lot of mileage on those legs, should've been around £40m
- Lisandro - good
- Malacia - ok
- Wout/Eriksen - hit and miss
- Mount - waste of money, at most £35m squad player
- Hojlund - has raw talent, striker market is very dry at the moment but for £70m you'd expect a lot more. Probably should've been around £40m for the potential, problem is we need a top striker now given how weak the rest of the attack is.
- Onana - good enough, though overpriced. I think Roberto Sanchez is a similar calibre keeper.
- Amrabat / Regulion - good
So in total a lot of the big signings have either been a waste of money or wild overpays. The biggest issue by far though is bad scouting - these are largely players ETH has coached before or played against in the Eredivisie, which means he doesn't have the time to effectively scout other players. So we end up overpaying for because we have no alternatives as the club are not scouting better options for him. Same story under Ole with the likes of AWB and Sancho.
This is because we keep buying Ten Hags ex or connected players.
Had ETH got his way, it would have been 100mil for Frenkie De Jong rather than Casemiro.