My favourite thing about this, no-one, not any of the "ITK's" reported that we were close to appointing anyone. Hopefully our transfers follow a similar trend.
We were rumoured to be in for him ages back - whether that was after The Gardener got his gloves on or before we appointed The Gardener I honestly can't remember, but yes I fully agree with everyone, it's a very, very good appointment. So we flogged The Gardener to Manc Reds to cover our FFP. Brought in Mitchell, who has a superb CV as his replacement. I'm delighted with this bit. Spunked a load of profit into the bank with Minteh and Anderson sales to bolster the transfer kitty. Are rumoured to be selling a few more to top that up further. Keeping all our big name players. New sponsorship deals x 2 rumoured to be brought in shortly (I bet one is for the Stella Cup) All in all, I'm very happy with that so far... 3 weeks into the window. If you believed some round here, the cupboard is bare, we're going to have to sell anyone to buy and we're light years behind our rivals in terms of attractiveness of the project.