How can we attract the required amount of ready made elite players when we're languishing in 13th and will probably not have UCL football for the second year running next year?
What is even your definition of an elite player anyway? Was Salah elite when he joined Liverpool? Palmer when he joined Chelsea? Yoro was considered an 'elite' talent, so why aren't we challenging for the title yet?
Lots of talk on here about preferring Kerkez, Ait-Nouri or Robinson, but when did they become elite? How many elite players even move clubs, let alone in January?
Just wait until that player comes along...ok, so wait for how long? What happens if that player comes along and we're still this bad? Why would they come here over somewhere else?
You don't need a team of elite players to challenge for the title and be a consistent top 4 club. Nottingham Forrest are 3rd right now, how many elite players do they have? I would argue that they actually have 0, but they have a hard working team with a good level of athleticism, clear roles, and just a small sprinkling of quality to turn tight games their way more often than not.
At the moment our squad is lacking pretty much all those things, and only probably 2 players that bring any attacking quality at all. We need to build a team that can compete physically, integrate the best graduates from Carrington, hope that Amorim is actually a good coach, get back to where we consistently compete for top 4 with the likes of Newcastle and Villa. Then, once we've done that, we can start to pull on the club's name again and start to bring the more elite players in we need to realistically win a title against the top City and (now) Liverpool sides.
Too many of you are trying to run before you can walk.
