Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
Those loan players are the root cause of the current problem, and we had to sign those because of the fire sale of players instigated by Mr Pace and ALK. We would have had to spend £60-£80 million in summer to sign them, £60-£80 million just to stand still, and that was never going to be an option, so instead of standing still, we've gone backwards. But this is a result of the financial straitjacket Mr Pace has put us in, nothing to do with the manager.
We have all watched Alan Pace sanction over £100 million spends on mid-summer acquisitions. The money was there, why spend £9 million on O'Shea when we could have had THB for £15 million?

I know you dislike ALK but the money Pace has put on the table hardly justifies your statement about a "financial straitjacket Mr Pace has put us in". Remember when we went totally mad and bought Dale Stephens for a million quid?

I do not have a clue about who is actually choosing the players but it sounds a lot like if Kompany wants, Kompany gets.

I remember him and Bellamy being in Belgium to watch Foster, next day we had spunked £10 million and a player suffering with mental health issues was in Gawthorpe.

I also recall both you and me being horrified at the Dyche/Garlick recruitment policy. Those two make this lot like absolute amateurs.

Perhaps Mike Rigg was not that bad after all?

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