It's complicated isn't it.

I don't disagree with what we did last time out. We sold Godfrey and Lewis for a combined £40m by playing them. Todd and Aarons value went way up. Pukki deserved his chance. Krul was good enough. Our problem was through the spine all season and Webber accepted he got recruitment wrong.

We weren't good enough at the #10 (though I feel Stiepi was written off far too quickly)
We weren't good enough in the sitting two (our best options became Tettey and Kenny who were still short of what was required, Amadou should have been an option)
Centre back the injury problems cannot be ignored.

The post restart collapse does indicate Farke was perhaps unable to get any fight out of the squad.

While lots of the clubs you've mentioned do have rich owners... Sheffield United arguably overachieved with scrappy League 1/Champs players. They were starting Sharpe and McGoldrick last season FFS so it eventually caught up with them!

Brentford are doing fine so far. Leeds didn't exactly have a world class squad last year... One of their best is homegrown and they've built around him, then they spent lots on a few.

We've spent lots on non-football. Stuff which is fine as we've also now spent what feels like more this summer than all previous summers combined! Either Webber and his team are s**t at identifying the attributes needed or Farke is not getting the most out of them. It's one or the other... Worst case it's both.

Can it be neither? No.

Posted By: trafford_canary on October 26th 2021 at 10:03:29

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Good article (NCFC) - Joe Strimmer, Oct 26, 08:51:02
- ? (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Oct 26, 09:22:55
- It is fair (NCFC) - Duck, Oct 26, 09:16:50
  - Sheff utd spent hugely and Watford have a prem squad (NCFC) - Joe Strimmer, Oct 26, 10:43:28
  - That's it, perhaps staying up would be beyond us, but there's a difference (NCFC) - megson, Oct 26, 10:08:32
    - Exactly (NCFC) - Duck, Oct 26, 10:21:50
      - Both (n/m) (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Oct 26, 11:09:33
  - It's complicated isn't it. (NCFC) - trafford_canary, Oct 26, 10:03:29
  - Maintaining it is the problem (NCFC) - Elmham Yellow, Oct 26, 09:55:26
    - Farke specifically said similar. Defensive teams struggle second season if they survive. (NCFC) - trafford_canary, Oct 26, 10:06:22
- No mention of wealthy owners skewing the system (NCFC) - trt354, Oct 26, 09:02:12
  - I'd love to see some analysis on results. (NCFC) - trafford_canary, Oct 26, 10:10:49
- No mention (n/m) (NCFC) - trt354, Oct 26, 08:59:39
- Yes, quite right. (n/m) (NCFC) - paulg, Oct 26, 08:57:04

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