Don Pacifico As you allude to, he's happy to propose market opportunities whether or not they're the best suited option available to us
I don't get that impression and wouldn't endorse that view.
Locating players on the market who are somehow cheaper than they should be is very useful, but we don't need that now, we need to carve out the space in our budget to sign a player like Haaland or Vini Jr for £150m then pay him £500k per week. Evidently if we are to do that, the player must be guaranteed: if we're being honest, it can't just be Bradley Barcola.
That's why I think it's a positive we're speculating on a few unknown youngsters: the intensive analysis of known quantities will have become too evolved for us to maintain any obvious edge. Even then though we're getting into madness with mere teenagers like Monga who enter the spotlight.
