And if you don't invest in your squad, where do you end up? Sunderland,Wigan Division 1 , seriously overpaid mercenaries refusing to leave and bleeding us dry and the distinct possibility of administration. Is that what you really want?

If one of those is Jordon Ibe and the other a youth development or Lewis signing, the board can just resign.

They should at least get a left footed winger in. Bowen was a good solution. I gave an entire list of left footed players who can be brought in if that doesn't happen. Same characteristics. Now we're jumping from Bowen-Townsend type of player cutting through the center on the left foot to right footed liniar player like Jordon Ibe and who has done nothing for 4 years.

We got Ayew, Cahill, and McCarthy for around 7m last summer.

The summer before we got Kouyate, Guaita, and Meyer for 12m.

Unless, of course, you mean spending big. Thank god we’ve avoided that after bringing in Benteke and Sahko. The costs of those two have, in essence, hamstrung the club.

We are clearly looking at younger players give the ones for the future who have arrived, and the one whose medical is problematic. That is the way forward for a club like ours, and given some of the injury problems we have had it seems reasonable to be concerned over a failed medical.