Took too long to bring players in. We have already dropped 5 points, against teams we should be beating, due to this.
Also, overpaid for the three players we have bought.
Should have bought at least another CD and another CM by now - the deadline is Monday!!
We bought Shaw and Herrera so quick because there was no doubt we are weak in this areas and things were already prepared. Both trasfers was done in best possible way. Then was time for LVG to evalute the squad and decide in which areas he want to strengthen. For example i am pretty convinced that Blackett is the reason we signed only one CB. He showed that he is good enough for the first team so we didn't need to bought two CB's. If we would do that we will slam the door in the Blackett face,
After LVG evaluated the squad we moved pretty quick. We were after Vermaelen and when he moved to Barcelona we moved on quickly and signed Rojo. He would be available for our second league game if he would get work permit soon enough. Di Maria was a waiting game transfer. I am suprised that we were able to sign him before deadline day like Arsenal signed Ozil last year.
It didn't took to long to bring players in. Selling club decide when and if they would sell their player to us and nobody want to rush this things. Woody couldn't do nothing about that.
Aboult overspending i have my own opinion. Yes it was stupid to pay 27M pounds for Fellaini as a panic buy but it is not stupid to add little more money to be able to buy one of the best players in the world. Everybody is doing that and people used to compain that we don't do that. When we do they complain again. Hererra was buyout clause buy and this was only option to buy him and Shaw is one of the best young talents and is worth the money.
And we can't just buy one more CD and CM.
We have Jones, Evans, Smalling, Blackett and Rojo for 2 or 3 positions. We can't calculate what if 3 of them are going to get injured. Noone does that because you would have to big squad if you would have so much extra players. In my opinion we are well stocked in that area. We lack maybe a leader in this defense or a little experience but that will come sooner rather than later.
And in CM we have Herrera, Fletcher, Carrick, Fellaini, Anderson, Cleverley and Di Maria can and i think will play in midfield. Yes the last three (Cleverley, Fellaini and Anderson) might go but then we are left with 4 players for 2 spots if we include Di Maria. If we buy 2 new midfielder there will be a big problem when all will be fit and good to go. We can't bench 29M pounds worth new player. We might buy one DM but not more so we can change formations and play Di Maria on the wing but we can't sign more midfielders.
One of the funniest thing in this forum are people who are writting all sorts of formations to fit all the muppets dream signings and then people evalute on that how they would play. You can't just sign players and change your way of playing to fit them in. You must buy the players who fit in the sistem which is already used. Teams usually train one or two different formations but not more and they don't change it because of the new player. The rest is just muppets playing football manager on the forum.