The problem has been a strange lack of strategy - look at the mess Chelsea were in last year yet the combination of getting a tough no nonsense manager in and buying Kante seems to have reinvigorated the entire club. In other words they identified 2 weak spots and dealt with them. With us we seem to have no real plan in place which is staggering - how on earth can we end up with four fullbacks - which in Pep's system is a key position having plenty of possession and needing pace - that are 33,34,32 and 31 years of age with their best years behind them? Acquisition has failed, we approach it like the Harlem Globetrotters and waste so much time and energy trying to buy certain players without building a team.
I am adamant they have identified our weaknesses.
Otamendi and Mangala were designed to be Komps partners. So it is obvious that at this stage they acknowledged they had to replace Lescott and Demichelis.
What they did not expect - first - wast that Komps would irreversibly be screwed by the recurring injuries, period.
And second, that Mangala would turn being hardly better than average at best ( or maybe shite ).
In their defense, i would say that singing a competitive CB is like playing the Russian roulette : you still have to pay a crazy transfer fee but you are never sure of what you are buying.
It is either hit or miss, but always at an insane cost.
Fernandinho, Fernando, Delph and Garcia were all part of the Barry-DeJong replacement plan.
Credits to them for the signing of Fernandinho, but they others turned to be complete flops.
On the other hand, they totally ignored the urgency to bring-in some competition for Clichy and Aguero.
If Kun suffers once again his usual-season-6week-mendatory-injury we would be knee-deep in trouble.
