Our fans still getting excited about transfers and having that attitude of "we just need the next position" is really no different than believing in Santa at this point. I mean, just how? How can so many people genuinely believe that the only difference is just a world class partner at the back, and then it was so obvious, we just needed a right winger. Before that, we just needed a proper playmaker and maybe just one more player who is comfortable on the ball in midfield. There is always a bloody position that needs to be sorted. City had basically no left back since Pep arrived. They won titles with Delph, Zinchenko and Cancelo at left back. They have virtually no strikers. Liverpool's CL and PL winning midfield was laughed at some point by us. If we'd gone for Henderson and Wijnaldum, the epitome of PL mediocrity at the time, the Glazers would have been murdered in the press. Even that ridiculous Barcelona side on paper, could maybe do with a right winger and maybe a left back with Abidal's unfortunate struggles and the very good, yet far from world class Pedro. Bayern annihilated everyone around them under Heynckes with a bloke called Dante and Gustavo starting for them. Their 9 was Mandzukic.
Despite all these examples, we remain the only major club in Europe who always just needs to fix the next position with a bonafide ready world class performer, because yes, that last position is indeed the last piece and how on earth can anyone compete if not every position is stacked with world class talent before they even arrive at your training ground.
