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There probably is a fair degree of being afraid to commit. If we didn't have a handful of players sat around collecting dust already (Ndombele etc.) maybe we would be a braver, but there is a very real risk of hanging ourselves with our own rope if that pile gets too big. Even with all the scouting and "due diligence" in the world there's always that risk of a player not working out.We keep hearing every club in Europe is broke and can not buy any of our players, PL clubs are the only ones with Money,. But still looks like we are looking for loans with options.
are we broke as well or are we just so damn afraid to commit and need to try every player coming from Italy first?
The Italy connection is an interesting one. Clearly Paratici and Conte are going to have more knowledge of that player pool, but it is notoriously difficult to get Italians playing outside of Italy, and in general some of the Italian clubs seem like utter twats to deal with. So a positive from this window (in my opinion) was those early buys coming mainly from England.
I'm hopeful that Lenglet is enough of a talent that we don't need to go back for Bastoni at all. It would appear that Barca are more keen to sell than Inter have been. As for Zaniolo that seems like another endless flirt in the making.