KenilworthSkyBlue
Well-Known Member
I'm delusional?
You do realise that in an attempt to prove Hull are a poor side, the best you could come up with was describing them as "1 win away from 16th place."
R.e. your second point, no, it doesn't guarantee quality, but investment into a squad is generally a key outliner to improving it.
The Championship spent about as much in this window than they have in the past 3 summer windows. More investment should in theory correlate to better quality overall across the league, yes there will be plenty of examples of poor recruitment in there - e.g. Norwich as it stands.
Just to go back further than that, more was also spent this summer just gone in the Championship than in the summer windows from 19/20 through to 23/24 as clubs were recovering from the financial burden of the pandemic / no crowds, where the rough spending average per window sat at around £35m.
It's worth noting that especially in those early Covid years net spend was also very high so a lot of talent was leaving as well.
There is an inflation issue in football where transfers are continually costing more, that's a given, but that hardly means the players are all crap.
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