We must be really desperate to boost the homegrown quota if this is true. I mean he looks fairly good, but nothing really special and it just screams squad filler again rather than exceptional quality. Are we planning to spend our budget on marquee names and recruit cheap squad fillers for the other roles?
Mind you, not sure he's much different in quality to Luke Shaw this year, who cost nearly £30m. But Shaw is 6 years younger and also isn't a patch on Gaya or Kurzawa (both of whom would cost under £16m) this season.
I'm trying to understand our transfer policy (again, assuming this is true - Mullock wrote it though) and am a bit confused. All will become clearer this summer I suppose.