[BaggieSteve]

Gosh, Jason Lowe AND Jake Livermore.....is there no end to our ambitions?

If we were seriously interested in Schneiderlin surely we are looking at better players than these!!

If this is the sign of things to come it proves that the club are happy to struggle against relegation each season rather than pushing for regular top half finishes.

OK....playing Devil's Advocate here, that would've been said when we signed Nyom. Many a treasure has immediately come good from a lower league, so I reckon we should hold fire on any criticism until that player is obviously NOT up to it; then not have a go at the player, but the regime that recruited him

That's a fair comment, Drewks, and over the years we have signed players who at the time seemed underwhelming but who proved to be brilliant. Nyom may prove to be so but my concern is that we seem now to be fishing in a pond where everyone fits the criterion that taking such a punt may be successful. I know we have to be realistic (we were never going to sign Schneiderlin) but we need a balance of "likely successful" and "pretty much guaranteed successful". All the indications are that we have a substantial amount of money to spend so I'm just concerned that we are not fishing in a slightly better pond