Quote Originally Posted by Swissclaret View Post

The fact that so many players are regarded as PL quality tells you something about how it was under Dyche.
Every single player in our squad was up for sale or shipped out this summer, every single one, no exceptions. No sensible offer would have been refused for any of them. Just 7 have been signed by PL clubs, which tells you how many PL players we had in our squad last season......SEVEN. Which just illustrates what was obvious to even Stan's blind man on his galloping horse, that the playing side had been so starved of funds and run down that it was no longer fit for purpose in the PL.

That we survived the previous two seasons was miraculous, last season was the inevitable outcome of three years of Garlick stuffing £50 million into the bank instead of using it to refresh the squad. If you think that a different manager, playing pretty football, giving our academy kids a few game and making astute substitutions would have saved us when we had just SEVEN players of PL quality, I respectfully disagree.