What utter tripe, for a start I still haven't said that Ed had a good window.
Luck has nothing to do with it, and I haven't made a single excuse for Ed, because I'm not actually defending him as such.
All I have said, and it really is extremely simple, is that you as an individual can't judge Ed because you know nothing about the workings of the club, or the positions Ed were in.
You could be right, he could have had an absolute mare of a window, but equally, the Glazers could have leant on him to not spend so much, or a million other scenarios.
You don't know.
That is the point.
Ed is not beholden to Jose, so just because Jose asked for 5,doesn't mean the club agreed, so he may never have been trying to buy 5 players in the first place.
Again... You don't know.
Neither do I. Chances are, no one on the caf does.
This conversation isn't about whether he was successful, it is about whether you or I are in the position to judge, and neither of us is.
Edit - I should point out, I'm not saying the Glazers aren't in position to judge him, they are. They're just about the only people that are