The pressure’s on: Wilcox and Berrada face mammoth summer transfer window
The pressure’s on: Wilcox and Berrada face mammoth summer transfer window How do we keep finding ourselves in this position, no matter what changes at our club? I’m talking, of course, about the summer transfer window. Every time summer is even close to rolling around, the importance of it is never understated.
And yet, it’s always true. This summer, just as in many summers before, is such an important one to get right. But we’ve heard that before, too many times.
The problem is that every year we keep hearing it. It’s not the way an adequately run football club should operate – constantly on the back foot and reacting to desperate needs. It’s hardly operating from a position of power, now is it?
And that leads to either extortionate fees (whether in wages or transfer fees) or unrealistic expectations on whoever it is that’s coming in. This time around, the importance is to do with the Champions League. Manchester United simply must be in it.
But we don’t want to get spanked every matchday, so we obviously need to invest. Invest in better players or better profiles – God knows, just whatever gets us to stop experiencing the same turgidness we saw in the first half against Leeds United on Monday night. Now there are six games left in the season, we’re seven points away from being at risk of dropping out of the top five spots, and we have Chelsea to play next.