I am quite concerned, we were looking to build on our best ever season in the premiership this season by adding some players in positions that would make us even stronger and therefore give us a better chance of winning the league this time around, but we have ended up selling 2 good players 1 of which was our player of the season last season and 1 which was virtually given away given the current climate.So we ended up selling them for a sum of.
Alvaro Arbeloa £4.5m
Xabi Alonso £30m
Total £34.5m
So ok we got a good price for Xabi but we still had to replace him and although Arbeloa isn't outstanding he was still better than most and was a steel for that price so now we had to replace them plus look to improve our team in other positions.So ok we have signed 2 players and they will now cover these positions
Glen Johnson 18m
Alberto Aquilani 20m
Total 38m
So we have signed 2 players who cost more combined than the 2 players who we have sold, who were performing in those roles for us last season and it is a real finger in the air of how the new players could actually get on and all this without improving in areas we went into the summer looking to improve in like left wing and a possible back up striker if fernanado gets injured.
Also how can we forget Sami Hyppia and what a defender he is to replace and this is a position you would like to see covered.
Hopefully I might be wriong and we sign at least 1 quality player but I can't see it.
So as we go into this season I'll ask the question which team looks stronger 2008/2009 or 2009/2010?