Vydra gone.

[sinkov]

It has to be said the recruitment under Garlick/Dyche was a disaster looking back.They spunked millions on players who could not make the step up and millions more on players who were clearly over the hill.

I don't totally agree with that CiB. It was going well I thought but, for whatever reason, Garlick pulled the plug 3/4 years ago.

2015, we brought in Andre Gray, Barton and Tarko, they all did a good job for us, but we somehow managed to let Tarko walk for nothing, no way to run a football club.

2016/17 we brought in Pope, JBG, Defour, Westwood and Brady. Defour and Brady got stuffed by injuries, nothing we could do about that, just one of those things, we've had our moneys-worth out of the other three. Then Hendrick, Taylor, Cork and Wood. We shamefully let Hendrick walk for nothing, but the other three were sound signings.

2018 it went a bit pear shaped, we spunked £30 million on Gibson, Hart and Vydra, I think Garlick got cold feet then and thought 'bugger this for a game of soldiers', the money tree was chopped down.

After that the squad was run down, the only serious money Garlick spent was on Jay and Brownhill, nowhere near enough to sustain us as a going concern in the PL. But for three years, from 2015 to 2017, we gave it a good go, spent some serious money and brought in some good players, and then just gave up to it, with the inevitable result.