When we ran into big financial trouble under Hardy not too long after he spent £400K on two players and both would have likely been one of the top earners at the club. Combine that with the bloated squad we assembled as Hardy backed the managers.

Same with the former owner paying Crawley compensation to take Kewell from them, and then two sackings that season would have again cost additional funds other clubs in L2 that season just weren't paying.

Any owner that doesn't follow suit is making a huge saving, chopping and changing managers costs money and too often is forgotten or downplayed IMO.

Any owner who doesn't do the above is reducing the chance of overspending and running into tenure ending financial difficulties.

We have paid I believe undisclosed fees for Taylor and Mitchell, I'd hazard a guess both were a fraction of the transfer fees paid for Dennis and Enzio. That's not a fact, it's just my opinion, my guess/estimate. I'm very comfortable with that guesstimate.