Let’s forget about the day after promotion and put together a really stodgy, attritional championship level team, full of 27 yr old cast offs, British ‘good lads’ with a couple of star dust players to dig us out of a hole at 0-0, and then watch us get absolutely dry bummed in the 26/27 PL season.
All whilst moaning that you can’t compete on the £150m transfer budget. You sow the seeds of survival the season before & the season before that. That’s why Leeds will stay up next season.
There’s a reason that Bournemouth and Sunderland don’t want Mepham. Just as there’s a reason Leicester don’t want Souttar and didn’t want Cannon. But let’s ignore that, and let’s dip our dicks in, and pay full value in fees and/or wages.
Two recent transfers should point the way for our future recruitment; Esteve at Burnley and Klarer at Birmingham. Scout the talent, pay the full fat fee, get the quality in, play them and get a potential upside on the resale. If you don’t sell you’ve got a player that is a level above what you need.
Mepham doesn’t move this ship on. McBurnie doesn’t move this ship on.