Picking up players like De Bruyne & Salah spring to mind. Effectively, you want us to go back to our old habit of buying players, which are over the hill. Sentiment or not, we need to look further than that.
How many windows have we spoken about our attacking issues? Havertz, Lukaku, Werner & Ziyech weren't meant to address that?
Out of those four, Havertz is the only one that looked like a solid buy before we signed him, whilst the other three were questionable at best. It's clear that someone other than our manager is picking targets.