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No secret that I& #39;ve been in favor of us signing Werner, but I can& #39;t figure out why he wasn& #39;t bought last summer for less than half of what he& #39;ll cost this summer. That doesn& #39;t exactly speak towards big-picture planning, IMO.
As with any prospective transfer, it& #39;s important to identify a player who fits the club& #39;s (and manager& #39;s) system, strategy, tactics, etc. And it& #39;s important to make sure the player is at the proper level and fits a position of need. I don& #39;t think many of us would argue on that.
But with that in mind: if you identify a player who fits all those criteria and can be had for a realistic price, go get him! And if the player does not meet all of those criteria, it doesn& #39;t matter if he has a good season, you stay with targets you meet your criteria.
So in the case of Werner: what& #39;s changed? Was he previously lacking in some area last summer that caused him to not be signed then? Have we re-assessed our needs and found that he is NOW a good fit but wasn& #39;t then? Or was he purely a casualty of being fixated on signing Sane?
(i.e. we were so set on signing Sane last year that all other targets kind of fell to the wayside)
Werner is having a great season under Nagelsmann, but he& #39;s not a fundamentally different player now than he was a year ago. So what is it?
Werner is having a great season under Nagelsmann, but he& #39;s not a fundamentally different player now than he was a year ago. So what is it?
The short of it is this: if Werner "checks all the boxes" right now, he checked them all last year, too. And if Werner didn& #39;t check those boxes last year, he& #39;s not checking them now, either. For me, this ultimately leads to two conclusions....
1. We can& #39;t make up our minds in regards to what potential transfers fit our needs/profile and/or we don& #39;t have a clear transfer strategy in place in this regard
2. We& #39;re just kinda daft and Werner WAS the & #39;right& #39; player all along and we just f*cked around too much last summer.
2. We& #39;re just kinda daft and Werner WAS the & #39;right& #39; player all along and we just f*cked around too much last summer.
