Some posters do seem to give great importance to which other posters are perceived as being negative. So long as it doesn't damage the image of the club it really doesn't bother me who's being negative and who isn't. Fair does, he does say "with all the talk".
There seems to be a bit of a divide between people who see things this way and those who (like myself) see the desirability in some cases of buying cover and not blocking the progress of one or two jewels we already have.
Others have stated much more vehemently than John that all new signings should be "bigger and better". In some positions and at this moment this may well be true but not, in my humble opinion, up front or at left back at present. Nor perhaps at centre back.
Why be like a poor soul called Viv Nicholson who won the pools, declared she would "spend, spend, spend" and ended up ruining her life? Why be like Real Madrid, desperately splashing the cash, going for the 2 best in the world in every position and papering over the cracks before that empire finally gained a Spanish league title after four years of trying and failing?
That isn't the way Nicholson did things at Tottenham in the early 60s or Shankly, Paisley & Co at Liverpool in the 70s and 80s, or more recently Ferguson and Wenger.
Oh, and please, no attempt to offend JC or any of the previous posters.