Interesting Financial Times article on transfer spending this summer

Conjecture and opinion leading to well....conjecture and opinion.
Anyone who believes adding better quality players in positions within the first 11 that are clearly better than those we had last year doesn't lead to improvement within the team (notwithstanding what anybody else has done) please respond as to why?
Just to clear it up of course.
 
The first part of the sentence that you quoted reads "Aside from the fullbacks". They are not going to transform us from a team that finished 3rd (15 points behind Chelsea) into genuine title contenders. The other teams haven't stood still either. Chelsea continue to improve their squad, as do Liverpool and the others. Our signings may help to close that gap slightly, but we certainly have not pulled out ahead of the fighting pack. Our early performances this season have highlighted significant deficiencies up front, which remain from last season.

I believe the signings at keeper and full back have turned us into genuine title contenders

We haven't improved in quality in attacking mid but the depth with Bernardo's signing means the drop off in quality when either KDB or Silva are out will be considerably less, meaning we've significantly strengthened there too.

Haven't read the article in opening post as it's likely rag friendly bullshit like the majority of what's written in the press.
 
The equation is fine for judging an immediate improvement to the starting 11 of each team and I think even we all agree starting Lukaku over Rashford is a significantly larger upgrade than starting Bernardo over David or KDB.

The issue is they are conflating this with "value for money" when anyone watching football knows you cannot compete in both the league and CL without quality depth. You need a whole squad of players and so the comparative value of the whole squad needs to be included. Bernardo is not an immediate upgrade on David and KDB, but a huge improvement over Delph who he is essentially replacing in the squad and ensures little to no reduction in quality when resting or tactically swapping between the three. As such Bernardo would not equal as much value over a new essential starter but is certainly not the negative addition the formula would make it appear. Even the authors recognize this by including the caption about depth but continues with the charade that the entire value of a team lies in its best 11.
 
Their assessment is jackshit. Mendy has like 10% impact on points total in that figure. Are you telling me that having Mendy over zero fucking leftbacks is going to have less of an impact than Lindelof who isn't even starting? Whatever algorithm they've used to compute that is dogshit.

They're using the 'Man Utd propaganda' algo
 
Can't believe we never got a mention spending that £6m and bringing the whole edifice crashing down.

Sorry lads. We're irresponsible ****s here at Celtic.
 
Can't believe we never got a mention spending that £6m and bringing the whole edifice crashing down.

Sorry lads. We're irresponsible ****s here at Celtic.

Turns out it's just £5m we have spent so far. With less than 12 hours to go I am not confident that's going up any either.
 

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