Yeah, one or two is fine, you have to roll the dice and keep a world class guy like Auba if you can for instance, but the kind of veterans we're picking up are mostly never-has-beens or players who have already fallen out of favour on the level we're playing at (or aspire to play at).
I get that funds will be limited this summer after we messed up, but ambitious clubs sign competition for the starting players they have, not backup options that they then pray they never have to use. As a thumb of rule you want players who are on their way up, not their way down. We can't settle for this level of signings, that's as bad as accepting a manager who can't even qualify for Europe. Standards slipping all over the place.