5 is probably an exaggeration but this illustrates the frustrating thing for me. The budget seems to be OK and it would be likely that someone like Pete Wild, Shez or dare i say Wellens/Scholes could have put a decent side together with it. It appears to me that AL is shooting himself in the foot with the foreign recruitment policy, unless his aim is purely to siphon money out of the club into his agency contacts pockets.