We should limit ourselves to one first team and one squad player on loan. You can’t build a team of loanees. Even if we had got promoted we would have spent 40m to stand still
I struggle with this, I really do.
11 of the last 18 teams to get promoted to the PL have been heavy users of loans. Really heavy.
Even the other clubs had one first team player on loan.
If we had got promoted we would then have the choice of how to invest the PL revenues to stay up. It may be that buying Archer and Ramsey for £32m would have been the right option, but it wouldn't have cost us £40m and we wouldn't have stood still.
I really think it strange to think that it is wisest to plough all funds into buying low price players from minor leagues abroad with the belief that:
1. They will be good enough to get you up.
2. They must offer better value for money versus other recruitment options.
3. Will develop and increase their value and could be sold for profit.
4. Will stay and form a collective that organically grows and provides miraculous continuity.
This view that we now have a point of difference because we have a massive recruitment resource backed by massive databases and analysis, is not a point of difference against the masses of other clubs trying to do exactly the same thing, all across the major leagues of world football.
It still comes down to judgement at the end of the day.