MeatHunterrr said:
BigOscar said:
All very well slagging off Everton's accounts, but I entirely agree with the guys actual point, he's nowhere near good enough to displace Silva as our best number 10, so it would be very odd for us to spend a fortune on him to either have him sat on the bench, or force our best player to play out of position in order to play a signigficantly inferior player in his position.
I'd far rather we spent that amount of money on the positions we are weak in, rather than blow it on someone we really don't need. I'd rather have a £40m winger (or even two £20m wingers), enabling us to play Silva in the middle, than a £40m Ross Barkley, forcing us to play Silva as a winger. Either that or spend the money on a world class replacement for Yaya in CM. For me, number 10 is pretty much the last position we need to spend a fortune, given that most of the time we don't even play with one, then if we do then we already have the best in the world.
But we have only 2 English players. Milner and Hart, surely we need more. Lampard will leave soon. Milner has yet to be even sign extension.
And I prefer we buy English players who are good enough to make some kind of impact, not the likes of Scott Sinclair etc. garbage.
I don't care about these HG quotas, there are far easier ways around them than wasting all our money on someone we don't need just for their nationality. We could just as easily dump Willy for a HG backup and actually buy the best player available instead of the best homegrown player available.
We can have 18 foreign players, that's more than enough if we plan properly. Our starting 11 shouldn't pay any attention at all to the quota imo, we should be aiming to get the best possible team, then look at the best way to then fill out the squad with the places left. If a HG player is good enough for our first team, then that's a bonus, but we shouldn't be spending huge money on people who aren't good enough, just because they are homegrown.
