The fan base has been conditioned over the years that we have to buy young hungry and guaranteed to improve because the club has for by and large been obsessed with signing players for what they can sell them for in a couple of years time, not ones who can do a job here and now. That’s why anyone over 27 is too old despite having probably at least 5-6 years left in them.
I’m sure I’ll get a few yeah but (insert Lallana, Walcott) but they were well past their best when they came back. When was the last time we signed someone like Steven Davis, a quality experienced player, at a good age, not a superstar not one that we can sell for 4 times what we paid but someone to come in, do a job for a few years?