Yeh I agree with what your saying, I said in a previous post that an outside factor had to of effected things. The man I want is Wirtz and it was obvious he wasn’t moving so delaying the rebuild a year for everything to fall in to place made sense just for him alone. But not spending 20M on a striker from somewhere is puzzling, Haaland is now going to have to play against Feyenoord, at anfield, Juve, PSG, Palace etc and we just have to pray he doesn’t get injured, if he does we are fucked. We barely have midfielders to cover midfield never mind putting one in false nine and we’re flanked by wingers who are averaging 1 goal in about 15 games between the 3 of them, I’m sure that will improve, it has too but they are still miles away from being prolific. I said before I’d be amazed to get top 5 if Haaland gets a lengthy injury, it’s a big if, but if that’s the case you can say bye to Wirtz and Rodrygo.We are seeing links to CM players in January only because Rodri is out for the season, otherwise we’d have waited until next summer. So there’s the reason for that. Echeverri will arrive. That’s the squad full, unless we decide not to register Rodri.
My view of why we didn’t do much last summer Firstly it would be nothing to do with Txiki.
Main reason I think we were looking ahead to next summer when Walker, KDB maybe Bernardo leave and replacing them. Secondly during last summer we didn’t know Peps plans, third,I think we are looking at replacing the 3 mentioned with players that weren’t moving last summer. Final reason I think we knew about the APT case and weren't sure where that left us financially, plus as much as we like to think otherwise I’m sure some agents were raising questions about the 115. Think there were reasons we brought in a CFG player and Gundogan on a free.
There may be other reasons none of us are aware of. What I am sure about is Khaldoon, Soriano Txiki, Pep know exactly what they are doing and will have had good reasons for every decision they have taken for the squad and will have a plan for the years and seasons ahead not just this season.