It’s very hard to judge because there are so many variables.
I’d say Matt Target is a much better footballer than Billy Sharpe or McBurnie, for example, and Josh King is probably better still. Yet somehow two of those nearly ended up qualifying for Europe, one got relegated and one just about stayed up.
Horses for courses, really. Which makes me optimistic because we now have a manager with a clear plan and strategy again. Hughes, Pellegrino and Puel had no. clear plan, so we ended up signing players that, largely, couldn’t deliver what was asked of them.