The time to stop buying talent needs to slow down and we now need some real top quality players but with an added spice of experience that will go into this squad. If some of these young lads we have are still here in 3-4 years and go on to be absolute top class then great but for that journey they need not only coaching right but have the arm of experience around the and most importantly has to be on the field more so than on it.
I actually think the hierarchy at the club have not given a second thought about what is needed on the field such as leadership, I think they have totally dismissed it as a whole in hope the team and squad will grow quickly. Experience is massively essential, look at past years, Terry, Carvalho, Cole, Makalele, Cech just to name a few he were around the team and squad but around people like Joe Cole, Diarra, Wright Phillips, Scotty Sinclair....and so on and so on. Whilst the players I mentioned may not have gone on to immense quality, what they had learned and experienced in both playing and being round these players will have been priceless.
We have to get back to looking at top players, and I mean players who really bring something to the party and most of all add experience to this young and very very inexperienced side and will continue to be that if we do not add this much needed experience, quality and difference makers.