No it doesn’t. You don’t just buy another player because one is injury prone, you replace them. Which requires that player leaving.
He’s also currently fit too, so heaven knows what we’re even moaning about. This ‘poorly run club’ line is such a grating buzzword these days. We have a number of players to buy. We bought one striker. We’ll buy another next year. We’ll also probably buy a centre half next year. Not buying 6 first teamers doesn’t make a club poorly run. 2 players sharing one position is standard procedure. Martial has fitness and form issues, but he’s still here and being paid handsomely too. That may be an irrelevance to you but it’s more than that in reality.
We ended Weghorst loan deal and we also loaned out Greenwood, that is two players leaving and we have only signed one.
This also a summer when the Saudis have been trying to sign anybody they can yet as it stands Bailly, Maguire, VDB, McTominay and Martial are still here amongst others I hasten to add.
The answere may be wages and players unwilingness to leave, but how the hell are all that still here as it stands? Twp pf those have barely made an appearance in two seasons yet cost about £70m, Martial is in what hi sseventh or eighth season here.
There are probably only a couple of clubs around the top half of the table who have raised less in sales than us and we had more players to move on than most sides.
We have spent £60m on a player in the last year of his contract to play a position he doesnt seem ideal to when there are a few deals within the same division for the same money on players on contracts or far less that on paper look to fit what we needed in our midfield.
Of course our recruitment in and out has been poorly ran, must be blinkered to suggest otherwise. There is also the "next season we will sign a, b and c"....I hear that every year, yet our deadwood still remains the same numbers and the what we need threads are still for the same positions as the season before.
Next summer we could well possibly be talking about needing to move on Lindelof, Maguire, Bailly, Varane, Dalot, Williams, Pellestri, McTominay, Martial, VDB, Martial, Greenwood....could still be a big number. Out what we need could well include 3cb, a number 8, back up number 10, rw, second striker.
Our business this summer is a regression from where we were in comparison to oru competitors. Hoijlund we over paid for, but he is the one huge bright spot signing fro melike Martinez was last year. The one in one out philosophy is pretty floored when we are moving out mainly players barely around the fringes of the squad, raising barely any money and failing to move on players on big wages that have done little to nothing for the club, some over several years, of course we have been poorly ran. We have only had two godo premiership campaigns where we weere still way off those above us and both seasons big clubs liek Chelsea and Liverpool had stinkers of seasons
