Not Actually that Crucial a Summer as of August 2023...beginning to now think everything isnt fine!

10000%.

Scepovic, Bangura, Rasmussen, Pukki off the top of my head were all signed for a combined £8-9m if you believe the reported costs.

Aye we wasted the £5m on Ajeti but we had Toney literally in the door and would have had him signed were things different...that would have been an example when it was good to spend a bit more. Another example being famously leaving Andrej Kramaric's agent "out in the rain" whilst we welcome back Scepovic with open arms. A lot of ghe time in the past it was the club making idiotic decisions rather than anything.

Fine margins in transfers. * need to stop acting like it's completely black and white.

 

As I said there you'd genuinely think the £10m was coming out their pocket.

I think folk are too afraid of what might happen if they were to flop. It's a risk we have to take.

Either spend £13m on someone like Rieder or Vinicius Souza or sign 5 or 6 players in the same position who may be good but might not be anywhere near them in terms of ceiling. It's worth the risk for me.

People are willing to trust the scouting process for the smaller punts so you would think that for the larger fees where we will have done SO much due diligence they'd be willing to trust.

 

I've seen plenty saying not to spend £13-15m on a player aye. On twitter or just in general.

I think some fans are afraid of the club spending that much on one player for some bizarre reason.

 

Not necessarily no but I do think its a bit selective in getting across the point.

As I've said above we've had many more poor buys and lost many more millions shopping in the £500k-3m bracket than we have when we have gone say £4.5m+ which I consider to be good money for us.

I think it's time we press the button on more established buys. I recognise that not every single player will be "big" money and I wouldn't want that but I can't be arsed with people being selective. We all know there's been a fair few occasions over the years where if we'd spent an extra couple million we'd have come out the other end with a better player.

With the way our recruitment is now set up I trust the club more than ever to get the right player in.

 

We need quality in the door, that's the long and short of it.

 

I get the business model, sign young players and move em on further down the line for a healthy profit, but there are occasions when we need to flex our financial muscle.

Not soley about throwing money at it, has to be the right type of player for us that will suit our style of play.

 

The huns got their business done early, i think this has caused added anxiety within our support because we haven't got the numbers in already, important though that we do what is right for us.

Rodgers is confident and that's good enough for me, his reputation is on the line after what happened at his last club.

 

At least a couple of feelgood signings are needed, give everyone a boost, show our intent.

 

Nah I totally get that but it's kinda kicked off another argument

I think we all know that cheaper signings can come.goos but as has been shown above, very selective in his examples (everything celtic). As you'd expect ofcourse

As Prof says above I think a lot of us are just desperate for 2-3 syatement signings.