True but at least for him, the jury is still out.Bumble wrote: ↑Thu Sep 25, 2025 4:08 pm The issue with saying 'He didn't cost much' whenever another one of our buys doesn't turn out to be quite what we had hoped for is that eventually these players add up to pretty significant sums of money. Beto, Alcaraz, Patterson, McNeil for example are north of £50m. That's serious money, not the type of funds you can throw about for a punt or two.
At some point you would hope our scouting starts to go up a notch.
McNeil's output in previous seasons justifies his expense.
I agree with your point, but I think in recent years we've had very very limited options.