Sounds like an attempt to subtly have a dig at Rafa in a different way, but go on then...

I think it is safe to say Rafa would have asked for different players than those we ended up with.

It’s all very well saying we should have brought in 2 quality players, and we should have, but they have to offer the transfer fee and the wages to bring in the quality, and the club either cannot or will not do that... so we end up with punts on prospects like Merino, and bids in desperation as the people holding the strings couldn’t do a deal other than the likes of Joselu.

Teams like Brighton etc, they have a balanced squad and they have built them over time... we haven’t had a balanced squad for donkeys years as the transfer policy has been to focussed on making a profit, and then recently we sold off the last big value players to fund building a team for the Fizzy and we just managed to top that league with Brighton falling away at the end.

We’re desperately short of leaders of this league across the team, our captain is probably the youngest in the league FFS.

So yes, we need quality... but Fat Mike will gamble and won’t provide the fee’s and wages to bring in a couple of players who can really make the difference.