For me we are just paying for years of awful recruitment. What is our policy, goodness only knows. Surely we should be thinking about the players age at the time of recruitment plus potential sell on at a later date. The signings don’t seem confirm that.

How many players do we buy at 25 or over? A lot of them.

Button 31, Ajayi 25, Bartley 27, Townsend 25, Livermore 27, Yokoslu 28, Phillips 25, Swift 27, Wallace 28, Reach 28, Robinson 27, Zahore 25. It is no coincidence that we cannot sell them on. It is just bad buying.

Of those under 25 we have had a variety of bad luck and average buying.

Grant 23, Diangana 21, Molumby 22, Bryan 21, Dike 22.

It also shows how little opportunities we give to our youngsters. The only player who has played many games for us over the last season and a bit is Dara O’Shea. One out of 18.

And don’t get me onto the length of the contracts we give them, plus extensions!

I feel so frustrated that we have spent good money on getting these players, including add on costs and large contracts. At our level you can expect to get some wrong but I think our record is far worse than that.

Yes Bruce is a big part of the problem now but this is the real problem and when someone new comes in I can’t see a way out in the short to medium term with the present owner.