The problem lies in the fact that the board and the Management staff are trying to complicate things for no reason. Champions League or No Champions League... we should be targeting the same players and obviously have backups. It's not rocket science. We need to buy players which we should have scouted all throughout the season and should have put in bids or signed pre-contracts like what Chelsea did with Pulisic. Ban or no Ban, they will be getting Pulisic. We always wait for 4 weeks in the transfer window to do any sort of business. This is ridiculous. 6 years in and we are still trying to determine our effective transfer strategy.
We've wasted so many transfer windows over the years... At the very least, the current contract of all our players should have been sorted out during January or at least offloaded the deadwood. Now we'll spend half the summer negotiating contracts for our current players and possibly invest in 2 players or so and then the board expects us to compete for the league with Ass-hley Young, Marcus Rashford, Chris Small-dick and Phil no Co-jones.