Well you clearly have judging by your first reply. Try reading some of the other posts here and see what posters are saying. Certainly no one is suggesting signing the likes of Van Persie. Don't be silly.
I totally agree. We need to have a base to work from. If we get relegated next year then all of our good work will be undone and we won't be able to hold onto our youth and potentially great players for longer anyway.
What player have we not been linked with that has subsequently signed for us? Either this year or last year? Doesn't happen, although many on here would like to think that our transfers are completely secret.
Possibly but then we did pay a lot for Jay Rod though you could argue that we haven't got a really high profile signing and tempted him to join like Lens for example yet. If we aren't prepared to pay the price for the likes of Lens then you would hope we have enough sense to move on and look for other targets who cost less. Our policy so far as far as I can see is to look for smaller clubs or clubs in less fortunate positions to ourselves because it makes negotiation much easier and we don't have to pay what the other clubs want. That works up to a point but we may have to bring in at least a couple of players where we maybe pay full whack because that could make the difference.
I don't think it's time to panic yet, but it would be a shame if we went down by a couple of points and we look back and think if only we had bought a more experienced keeper or a better quality CB (or got a CB in earlier.)