Quote Originally Posted by boingy View Post
My thoughts haven't changed for decades now. We need to build a proper team, with proper players and a proper manager. No more shopping on Gumtree or or giving old Actors bit parts to keep their career going. We don't recruit with a view to being something. When we get the chance we don't take it. When Pulis got us 10th beating all the top clubs home and away even (Except one , Man City) we spent NOTHING to kick on. We should have spent big, changed the manager to kick on and be playing in Europe. I really don't care now. Bruce is a joke, shouldn't have even been on a long list let alone a short list. The players? I don't care anymore what happens to any of them. I really have had enough.
I don't agree that you have to spend big. I think recruitment has to be right. It is the single biggest appointment we can make.

We have spent big in the past and we've rarely got value for money. £15m for Burke, £10m on Brown Ideye, £12m on Chadli. Even in our current squad, £18m for Diangana, £15m for Grant, £8m on Zohore and £6m on Johnson.

Ron Gourlay has to do a seriously good job in the next few transfer windows. If he doesn't, then we won't see premier league football for a while.