Don't spend the money, we'll always be behind behind Liverpool, City and Arsenal.
Not suggesting no money be spent at all, it's not my money, spend away. I just want them to be smart about it where possible.
If you're dropping 100+ for a player to be the starting 6, to me, you need to at least try getting the players just a little older, experienced, ready to go. If all that's even partially available in that space is Tonali and Tchouameni and neither are gettable, then sure. But I still think Anderson is possibly more of a risk than those 2.
Anderson will be great, but you drop 115m on him, it doesn't really work as we want, and you don't then spend on a LB, backup striker, RB, another CM, LW as a result, couple injuries, increased number of games and just like that we're back out of UCL.
The club's history of player signings recently is diabolical and has caused glaring gaps in the squad.
Anderson is a luxury signing for someone like City because they don't even need him. He can take his time getting into the squad, take over from Rodri slowly, play some games, bench others. For us, we'd need him straight in the starting squad likely twice a week. For a younger player, that's a lot of pressure.
It's just an opinion at the end of the day, who knows what the club will end up doing or not doing. I'm not going to be unhappy if we spent 115m on Anderson, as above, it's not my money and he clearly is a quality player. Just somewhere in the back of my head, I'm thinking in 12mths if he hasn't kicked on, we don't get UCL, there's no money for the inevitable next manager to fix the squad again.
