January

[ClaretinBudapest]

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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The Yanks love AI BT.As you can see their worldwide player scouting platform needs a little tweeking like putting in drawer 13.I think I will offer my services again as a scout here in central Europe.My first advice would be to get Styles from Barnsley.

[Supersub6]

The Yanks love AI BT.As you can see their worldwide player scouting platform needs a little tweeking like putting in drawer 13.I think I will offer my services again as a scout here in central Europe.My first advice would be to get Styles from Barnsley.

AI is all well and good, however, I am not sure whether or not we still have any active scouts doing the rounds in the UK --or anywhere els for that matter, so don't get your hopes up CiB.

[sinkov]

AI is all well and good, however, I am not sure whether or not we still have any active scouts doing the rounds in the UK --or anywhere els for that matter, so don't get your hopes up CiB.

I did read somewhere Sub that we'd fired off the lot of them.

[Supersub6]

I did read somewhere Sub that we'd fired off the lot of them.

Exactly what I had heard as well sinkov. I have also heard a few other things which I did not like, however, I am not going to say any more about that because I have no proof and do not do conjecture.