I don't blame them entirely, I think Jurgen wanting to keep the same lads together, something he puts a great deal of faith in has been part of the problem also
It's a combination of things, FSG were straight up about how they would go about our business all along and it being continuously successful was really dependent on UEFA and The Premier League actually enforcing FFP and not just on the likes of Everton and others, on the biggest piss takers of all like City, Chelsea and the filthy
Fab should have gone in the summer of 2020, simply not a No6 or DM he's a midfield destroyer, should have sold him and gone for an actual DM and made a profit there
The Thiago as a midfield playmaker fantasy that has been part of why we've been so shit this season was all Jurgen's idea by the looks of things, replacing and ever present like Gini with a lad the same age with a long history of missing several games a season through injuries and in other teams he was successful as a playmaker in, albeit one of two playmakers, those sides then struggling in his absence, well, it's simply the most self indulgent fucked up idea ever, if a manager of any other club did that with the effect it has had I'd been absolutely ripping them
Ward fucked up signing Tchouameni last season when Real weren't bidding and had all their eggs in the MBappe basket
The recruitment team fucked up not getting in Enzo for 9m in the summer, but playing devils advocate, Jurgen viewed Thiago as his playmaker and Fab as a credible Dm so he probably didn't want him
I think it's a mixture of several things, but wanting to keep the same group together, including players who are rarely fit to contribute and on whopping wages is a Jurgen thing, seeing too many players we could have got reasonable fees for that would have helped considerably leave for free, seeing us have to replace 2 or 3 in one area at the same time as we wide bringing in 3 forwards in a year through keeping others on for too long as a result of that
No-one's mentioning the elephant in the room about us having had to bring in 3 forwards in a year I see, that was on Jurgen keeping Origi and Minamino so long
Had he sold fab and Origi when he should of, one in the summer of 2019 and the other in the summer of 2020 it would have likely generated 90m to put towards proper players for their positions
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