We had too, 5 loanees went back and a number of our squad were not good enough for the PL. We have signed 18 up to now, 2 of those have immediately gone on loan. It is a brutal task in more ways than one but an interesting point is that SC won the U17 World Cup with a team he put together in a matter of weeks. We have already had three injuries and named kids in the first two games on the bench. The owner and his son are determined individual who wants success and know the cost of success in the PL is high. We start from a lower base than either Fulham or Bournemouth who both have had PL experience and therefore players plus parachute payments in the last two years.compared to your spend it is minuscule and we will have to continue to spend if we maintain our PL place.
I was so impressed by our performance against Spurs in certain areas. Our defence is missing one of the injured players and having Cook in although great for us last year means a serious lack of pace. Let us hope we can give a good account of ourselves and the experience enables us to learn quickly and become an established PL team.