Our attitude to the transfer market for the past couple of years has been appalling. Whether that's Pep, Txiki, a combination of both, who knows, but this situation has been coming and has finally caught up on us.
Not selling clearly over the hill players that have flirted with an exit, signing squad fodder in a panic after cheaping out on first choice targets, all while letting some huge home ground talents leave that would have filled key positions where we have gaping holes, because they backed themselves to play. The latter would be more forgivable if we actually reinvested it properly, instead of lauding our net spend in the media.
I'm at the point where all I can do is just laugh. Could see this result coming from a mile off today as we approached the 80th minute.
Pep deserves the time to fix this, but with each game I am losing patience after watching the same thing play out time and time again. Continuing to play struggling, unfit players is just insanity. Spent the whole pre-season bigging up McAtee and O'Reilly, only for them to drop off the face of the earth when we have an injury crisis and desperately need fresh legs.
Shit or get off the pot time for Pep and the board. Go into the January transfer market and just get it done - DM, RB and forward - no quibbles or faffing.
I don't want to see any puff pieces celebrating selling McAtee for £20m and how our academy makes so much money, whilst we fuck about trying to haggle £10m off Newcastle's asking price for Bruno.
