With the exception of Suarez during Lucho's tenure here the idea here was always to buy cheap, "good players," save a lot of money, and somehow hope they turn out great.
Apparently someone -Lucho or someone else in our board- thought they were soo smart doing this and had fantastic eye for spotting underrated talents and what they were doing was just pure genius. The truth is they accumulated a bunch average to shitty, or ultimately unsuitable players for our team.
Mathieu, Rakitic, Rafinha, Vermaelen, Douglas, Turan, Vidal, Digne, D. Suarez, Alcacer, and the king himself Andre "lead feet" Gomes. None of them are anything special, and to be honest even the likes of Rakitic who I consider a good player but I still include him cus he was just ultimately a short term solution, our midfield is still shit with him or without him.
Only Umtiti can be rescued as a truly WC signing from this little experiment these idiots had.