Brady and Chester were both sold on 29th July 2015, before the first game of the Championship season. Jelavić was sold later on in the window to West Ham and actually played the first game of that season in the Champ.
Fair enough thought they were sold later in the window than that, although my point was more about when we went down rather than what played out that window, but it's splitting hairs I'll accept. I assume their new-fangled transfer strategy wasn't decided during that window, but who knows.
And that’s the crucial mistake the Allams made. Bruce had got us promoted twice, the second time whilst making the club a healthy profit on transfer fees. They had all the evidence that the model was working, albeit suffering a temporary blow.
add it to the long list of crucial mistakes Laurel & Hardy have made since Dec 2010. Assem can always go back to doing what he’s good at, selling diesel engines. No idea what Ehab could do.
He left a few months after They also sacked Keith bertschin climbing on the team bus a few weeks after brucey resigned. Stephen Clemence Garry Walsh left a few months after brucey too to join him again. Still we got darnborough and ehabs mate
All the evidence Ehab needed was in the accounts for the season we beat Sheffield Wednesday and got promoted and they don't make pretty reading. In hoc to the bank, and unable to pay players' bonuses unless we got promoted.
It was said that £80m was spent by Bruce in the season we were relegated. I was told that face to face by the most senior person at the club. I also said that Bruce leaving was the biggest mistake the club have ever made. Ehab had to step up because Assem was seriously ill. I was also told the Allams had to beg and plead with Bruce to give us another season after that relegation because he wanted to be away. But it's obvious that Bruce didn't like been kept out of the negotiations and is probably why he wanted to leave ? I don't think the Ryan Mason signing should be used in this because we will never know how could he could have been. I agree totally with your last sentence. The day Bruce threw the towel in was the day the downward spiral started. However there were reasons for his departure. You either believe them or you don't. Maybe Bruce will let us all know in his autobiography one day ?
Kempton stop clutching at straws to explain your absence. The man should never have been on the television at the time. Also to claim that he wasn't ill is making you look stupid. The man was on his death bed and its a miracle he's still here today.
I think you’re being conned by ehab there then mate. We had the third lowest wage bill at 19. Hull City spent £56m on wages in the 2014/15 Premier League season – Hull finished 18th in the actual Premier League table. so maybe it was 80 million with transfers as that would be 24 million on transfers. But it’s disingenuous to say he spent 80 million. that amount was the second or third smallest wage budget in the pl that season. And they all had relegation clauses in their contracts. he did brilliantly to get his team backup and sold Brady and Chester and released mcshane rosenoir quinn Koren? And some others to do it. He had to go along with ehabs stupidity and not sign Andre gray as we didn’t need him arf who went in and scored the goals for Burnley to finish top! And then they sold him for a fifteen million profit. Bruce had future value in nearly all his signings and what signings the captain of Scotland and England s centre half. England caps for Jake Livermore. The best passer of a ball seen in a hull city shirt Tom Huddlestone. A bargain in meyler and Elmo from Sunderland. An ex England player in Dawson. it’s really heartbreaking to see what we had and where we could have been now.
If we had played the cards right we could have been in the yoyo group like West Brom, Bournemouth, Burnley, Norwich.
But no-one knew that when we were relegated from the Premier League owing millions of pounds all over the place with the manager wanting to leave and the owner of the club seriously ill, did they ? It's all hindsight. It isn't disingenuous to say he spent £80m either because it was on the books accounts, it had gone somewhere and we had just been relegated. It may also have been the second or smallest budget in the PL at the time but we were the second or smallest club in it so everything is relative. Also was not the club on the verge of being sold that summer with the sale only getting knocked back by the PL at the last minute ?
Burnley are and always have been a bigger club then Hull City with a proud football tradition of First Division football going back way beyond the days of the Premier League when Hull City were bouncing up and down from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th divisions.
They will. Edit my point being if they do go down they can and should be so far ahead of championship teams they will soon go back up.
just because Ehab told you something….that doesn’t mean it’s true, he’s using you as a method to spread disinformation amongst the fan base. He’s using you to create conflict
