Manchester United spending £150 million on three midfielders this summer. Three. Midfielders. In one window. Right, where to even start with this one.
Look, United's midfield has been absolutely crying out for investment for years now. Anyone who watched them last season knows that watching Casemiro try to press at that age was genuinely painful viewing. Like watching Rocky in Rocky V, past his best but still being asked to fight. So the need is real and nobody is arguing against that.
But here is the thing that gets to any sensible United fan. The club has spent obscene amounts of money over the last decade and somehow ended up with a worse squad than they started with. Ole spent. Solskjaer spent. Ten Hag spent. Amorim is now apparently going to spend. And yet the team still looks like it is being assembled by someone doing Football Manager on a laptop at the back of a lecture theatre.
£150 million on three midfielders sounds brilliant in a press release. In reality it depends entirely on who they are actually buying. Because United have a very specific and impressive talent for identifying good players at other clubs and then somehow making them look ordinary at Old Trafford. It is practically a superpower at this point.
The bigger question here is whether INEOS actually have a proper plan or whether this is just another summer of throwing money at problems without fixing the structure underneath. Because you can buy three world class midfielders and if the system, the coaching and the culture are not right, you are just adding expensive passengers to an already confused squad.
That said, if the names turn out to be genuinely elite players who fit what Amorim is trying to build, then fair enough. Give credit where it is due. The ambition is right. United need to be spending at this level to get back to where they think they belong.
Just spend it wisely this time. That is all anyone is asking.
Let me know your thoughts.