aCe' » Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:04 pm wrote:This is the problem with signing the likes of Ings and Milner (regardless of the fee paid). We now have a newly signed striker who isnt good enough to start (even if it's just for a few months) and a midfielder who -for all intents and purposes is a squad player- expects to start regardless of the position despite not being good enough for a CM role or a wide forward role.
If we hadnt signed the pair we'd be looking at a better CF (Bacca as you suggest despite me not liking him) and a better midfielder (Kovacic, Illaramendi, Yarmolenko, etc) who would walk straightinto the starting 11 in their respective positions.
And before someone suggests that we need to improve the squad to become competitive, I think we have a good enough bench without needing to add the likes of Milner and Ings. Lallana, Markovic, Ibe, Can, Lucas are all backup for the midfield spots and Balotelli, Origi, Lambert, Borini are all backup for the forwards.
Agreed Ace, at this moment, the signings of Milner and Ings look pointless and counterproductive, despite the fact that both of them are not bad players. It seems like we just added new faces for no reason, and it's never a good thing to sign too many new faces at once. The squad didn't need improvement, the first 11 did.
IMO, these two will just get in the way, especially Milner, who was most likely promised a starting role and will have to start ahead of the likes of Can, Henderson, Lucas or maybe even Kovacic or Illaramendi (or whoever we sign).
