I’m not saying we had a brilliant transfer window, but a disaster is a stretch.Disaster of a transfer window in my opinion...
A goalkeeper we didn't need,
A young winger nobody had heard of who maybe decent in a few years.
A centre back who is apparently decent but who still has not really played and doesn't look like doing so for a while due to internationals and then quarantine after which he has another international break ...
A midfielder who is about 15 and again maybe one for the future, who has been loaned back to his French team .
And eventually a right back, who I am slightly concerned about as he is an unknown quantity and Barca happily gave him up with no buy back of anything....
So basically we still need a centre back and a midfielder and a striker just like we did before the transfer window opened.........
We have romero but gave up Toby....he should be playing with Toby...
1. We definitely needed a keeper, Gollini is an upgrade on Hart and shows we’re planning on life after Hugo
2. Gil has already showed promising signs, most of the good signings we’ve made in the last 10 years have been close to unknowns
3. This Romero situation isn’t ideal with the internationals but he’s only 23 and was the defender of the year in the Serie A last season. If we get 7 odd years of quality out of him we’ll forget his first few months saw him barely play.
4. You literally make it seem like a bad thing that we’re signing players for the future, he turns 19 in a week and will hopefully have a season on loan then be ready to come back and play. As we’ve seen with Skipp this year.
5. As you may be aware, Barca are completely broke and just loss the greatest player of all time on a free and let go of Griezmann on a 100m loss
6. Centre backs personally I’m happy with seeing we got Romero. I would have liked to see another midfielder come in but without Tanguy going we couldn’t really have 7 centre mids. Striker is a bit of a mess but do we really need another Janssen, Llorente or Vinicius? They all only made about 10 starts a season in all comps and 1-2 in the league.
7. Toby has been shit for two seasons IMO and was on big wages, even though they’re shit too I’d rather Sanchez and Dier as we can hopefully get a couple seasons and maybe recoup a fee (or ideally see them continue their current form)
Again, it wasn’t the best window by any stretch but not the worst. I’d rather do what we did than spunk 150m on fuck all like the wankers down the road.