I get all the frustration with the position we are in when looking to sign players, a 2nd/3rd division German player isn’t exactly inspiring but we’ve had hits and misses from all levels over the years.
Some bad signings from top divisions or highly rated players that I was expected much more from over the years:
Murphy, Etuhu, a bunch of Portuguese players, Barry Ferguson, Giorgios Donnis, to name a few off the top of my head.
some good signings out of nowhere, lower or reserve divisions:
Chris Samba, Sammie Szmodics, Ryan Nelsen, Nzonzi, even Friedel!
My point is we have to cut our cloth, historically we had a strong network of scouts and managed to pluck some gems that made us a lot of money.
I don’t have confidence in this lot to get near those levels, but I’ll cling on to the hope that someone could come good, feint hope, but hope still.