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[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

It's not about the players delivering, it's that the squad/team needs to have improved a great deal if we are to say it was a great window. Eg if we signed no one but the players delivered a better season does that make it a good window? Of course not.

I'm not as impressed with the team/squad on paper as others seem to be - so this is guiding my point. i think we have clearly improved central midfield from last season but otherwise the defensive and attacking units haven't really improved (on paper) we lack goals across the attack and our current best back four contains 3/4s of the defence from the last 2-3 seasons.

So with that in mind i think that the club have done their part in buying the primary targets of the manager but I'm doubtful the end result of that improves our position all that much.

Totally reasonable opinion. I personally think we have improved, and that a manager with such a defined way of playing getting his very specific targets is likely to improve us overall. But I respect the other side of that debate.

I think when I read the idea that people have ‘gone early’ with their judgement, it reads like a critique of being happy that the club has done what they have done. As if we as fans shouldn’t be happy that the club has backed a manager in a way they haven’t before. Personally, I think it’s a pre-requisite for success. And while it doesn’t guarantee we’re going to be trophy laden; it’s a heck of a lot more likely when the club operates in this mode than the one that came before it.