But if you look at the views of fans just before the start of the season the general consensus was we needed a better strike force and more depth in the squad.That's the one for me! I've said extensively on another thread - spending £20m on an unproven striker with a career of barely c20 Championship games when we already had Mousset, McBurnie and Burke in that same 'unproven'/taking a punt category, when we have a midfield that looked badly out of its depth at the end of last season was suicidal.
Imagine if a Director of Football had done that! Tufty would be going bananas
While we had a poor run of form post lockdown we also had some good wins.
While I expected this season to be more difficult than last. I didn't foresee the drop off in form from Fleck Norwood and Lundstram. Berge is a different matter. My view is the 5 3 2 system does not suit him. I would play him centrally in a 442. He has talent but CDM is more about receiving the ball and shifting play to the appropriate side of the field. It's heads up football. He likes to take touches and is a little too much right sided. On the right in a 3 man midfield he has to cover alot of ground and he is not a natural athlete.
So yes the recruitment proved to be disappointing. But we were crying out looking for a striker. And we ended up buying potential rather than proven which hasn't worked out.
Being honest I think we could argue on every position on the team on whether we should bought someone better.
All I can say is the squad needs to be radically different if we come back up.
We now see who is consistently at the level required to play in the PL. Which in my book is only Egan Berge and Didsy.
It will take a lot of smart recruitment like Brentford and Southampton to achieve that.