The press release about Bamford having this problem for 12 months and a tear in the ligament last summer makes the decision not to recruit a back up striker even more senseless.

That coupled with Orta’s recent pearls of wisdom around have a squad of no more than 18 first players and his belief he seems to have found a new formula makes me more annoyed how they treated Bielsa.

To steal a phrase from the construction industry they valued engineered the squad too much and when it broke they blamed the coach.

Also if we sell Phillips we are supposed to be buying a championship player Flynn Downs as a replacement - looks like they are about to screw over Jesse M too.

I think Orta has done okay but this strategy suggests he and not Bielsa should have gone over the lack of players signed last summer and in January. If Orta’s hand were tied then it points at Radz and the 49ers.

For once, I would be happy with a semblance of doing things the normal way at the club!