How is that going to happen? In the last four seasons, we’ve shown little inclination to spend more than we’ve received in transfer fees (indeed we’ve spent less). If we’re accepting losses on players, where is the money going to come from to put things right?
The hope is that the players who’ve underperformed to date, including those we’ve loaned out turn things around and we start hitting on a few Manés and VVDs in our recruitment again. Big ifs. It’s also easy to forget that it wasn’t our skill in the transfer market per se that funded the makeover of our squad during the good years; it was the massive windfall that came from selling youth players that cost pennies to produce. Given the state of the academy, no similar bounty appears on the horizon anytime soon.