Even your boys, Chelsea, did what I ask of Arsenal to do. I'm sure you guys would rather have David Alaba at LB, or a top cllass CB. but he, or a guy of that quality isn't available. But atleast Mourinho went ahead and bought talent, despite not being world class, just to add depth. I don't understand why we can't do that in out DM and Striker positions.
Chelsea signed a LB (Baba) because we sold a LB (Felipe Luiz). A proven high quality LB who Mourinho made little to no use of. Mourinho would rather play Azpilicueta out of position at LB than trust the LB we signed for big money (16 million).
Chelsea signed a RW (Pedro) because Mourinho made little to no effort to integrate and utilize the RW (Cuadrado) we already had here. 8 months later, Mourinho is dumping a player we spent 26 million pounds on.
Chelsea signed a GK (Begovic) because we sold our second choice GK (Cech).
Chelsea signed a CF (Falcao) because we lost a CF (Drogba) who was old.
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Chelsea were plugging holes due to departures of proven talent in the first team.
Two of these big money moves were necessary because of Mourinho's wastefulness.
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The only position we tried to add to the team was at CB. A young up and coming CB who has capacity to become a top class CB down the road. Someone who can come in and play straight away and replace John Terry as Chelsea's leader at the back over next few seasons. Someone who along with Zouma can provide the backbone to Chelsea's defense for next 8-10 years. We went after John Stones for big money. Marquinhos for big money.
Came up empty. Nobody wanted to sell.
Ended up with that 27 year old never heard of before guy from the french league as a stop-gap 4th choice CB. I can only imagine the outrage from Arsenal fans if this happened at their club.
It happens. Just because you want something does not mean that it is available.
At the top level in football now, it is not always possible to get what you need. There is more money than talent. Most top players are already at big clubs. Most signings are either proven players who are not playing at their club or are signed as younger players before they join one of the top teams like Madrid or Barcelona and trained up. It is difficult to get proven top quality talent.