I kind of covered that in the taking the risk side part of my post, Southampton take the risks that we aren't prepared too, or really need to as we can afford the "finished" article, as mentioned, our scouting is risk adverse, and that's because we're frankly loaded, it makes more sense for us to let someone else take the risk. As for Mane, if he joined us two years ago, he wouldn't be the player he is today as he wouldn't have got in the team ahead of Sterling, Coutinho, Firmino, etc, and that first team time is essential for a players development. The reason I think it's a nonsense argument is because people want us to sign these players for the first team, but they want us to sign them at a stage when they haven't fully shown they're that player, that approach would only work with the benefit of hindsight, or with luck because all the scouting in the world wouldn't have proved that Payet would have had the season he just did, and look at the average season Mahrez had the season before. Just imagine if two years ago (ignore who we actually signed) we signed Divock Origi as our main centre forward, as our marquee signing, there would have been riots on the forum!
