Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
Which needs to be highlighted as another big error, both Neto and Sterling were last-minute panic loans and famously Neto can't play for us in the LC so some of the games he might've taken off Raya were a no-go anyway
The error, I think, was in not planning properly for failing to obtain our primary targets. By the time the summer transfer window was closing we had no opportunity but to panic loan.

Ironically, the knock on effect of these 2 loan signings - that prevented us from loaning the likes of Ferguson and Rashford in January - is a great example of how unplanned signings can come back to bite you in maybe unexpected ways. Which partly goes to explain our reticence to do anything re a striker in January.

Like I say, more and more last Summer is turning out to have been the real problem for us. Personally, I look to that rather than our stance in January as the real grounds for criticising the club.