Reluctantly Mawson is about the only player of the 90 squad in the bottom three teams that could do ok here. 1 in 90 is not the rule its the exception proving my point.
I'd not be unhappy if we signed Moritz Bauer from Stoke. Right sided wing back who didn't look terrible and a clear upgrade on Doherty in my eyes... Is that 2 in 90 now?
I don't think anyone on here is saying we should sign a load of players from Stoke or Swansea and I don't see anyone in the Albion team I'd be interested in. It's about cherrypicking talent that improves on the players you have, improving the squad from the top rather than just buying squad filler which is where we made the mistakes in 2010 and beyond.
Doyle improved the starting XI as did Fletcher.
O'Hara played really well when on loan with us and everyone was delighted when we managed to sign him...Your claim that we signed him from a relegated club is wrong, however, We signed him from a team that had survived in the Premier League the season before he joined permanently, us! Relegated in 2010, joined us on loan from Spurs in 2011 and signed after he helped us stay up
Our mistakes during our last visit to the Premier League was that apart from the "big" signings, we signed a whole load of absolute shite!
2009/10; Doyle £6.5m, Zubar £2.5m, Milijas £2.2m, Halford £2m, Maierhofer £1.5m, Surman £1m plus some loans; Castillo, Mancienne, Guédioura and Bia with Hahnemann, free.
2010/11; Fletcher £6.5m, Hunt £2.9m, Van Damme £2.7m, Mouyokolo £2.5m, Guédioura £2m, Hammill £500k, Griffiths £150k; O'Hara, Mancienne and Bent on loan and Doherty for about £20k
2011/12; Johnson £7m, O'Hara £3.5, Egg Jónsson £200k, Frimpong and Bassong on loan and DeVries for free
Our problem with recruitment above, especially in the final year, isn't that we signed players who had been relegated but that we signed some UTTER SHIT! A couple of improvements and some rank squad filler. We won't be doing that this season but should still not be put off a good player because he has a relegation on his cv
