Hipper wrote: ↑Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:59 amI can't get too excited about most of these proposed signings. To me anyway they are mostly unknowns, mostly no experience in first teams or The Championship, and don't look like players that can give us the capabilities to return to The Premier League at the first attempt. Couple that with the loss of the only real Premier League players we had, a manager who also has no England managerial experience and all the excitement becomes about 'potential'. Potential because of all the unknowns but once we know.....
I'm just hopeful the powers that be know what they're doing but quite frankly they have yet to show that they do.
Unfortunately a club of our size this is the only way we can rebuild, "taking a chance" with lower league players (and dont forget we could not sign a quality premier league player when we were in the top league, we were lucky if we could attract a top end championship player) and also any coming through the ranks. Our wage bill outgoings will probably be "relieved" at the 3 big outgoing players but make no mistake they were the best most consistent players at the club, par none. On the other scale we paid £12 million for a useless centre forward 6 months ago - do we keep throwing darts like that ? The manager is inexperienced no doubt but Rooney and Lampard seemed to cope with the championship and other managers in the past we never heard of at the time doing well in there like Wagner etc etc.
A club our size will find it difficult to rebuild and bounce right back, very difficult, we might sign 5-8 players which would mostly all have to work as good signings plus right now except for Cornet (if he stays) is anyone convinced there's is another current squad player that will get double figures in goals ? I'm not.