Derby and FFP.

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Our excess spending, and thus our losses on relegation to the Championship, were far greater than any other clubs. Simple as that. No other club has come close to being as profligate.

£41.1m spending spree on the likes of Andrew Johnson, Julio Cesar, Samba Diakite, Robert Green, Stephane Mbia, Park Ji-Sung, Esteban Granero, Junior Hoilett, Jose Bosingwa, Ryan Nelsen, Christopher Samba, Loic Remy, Yun Suk-Young, Jermaine Jenas and Tal Ben Haim.

I feel bad thinking about it
Going to make you feel worse now -

Djibril Cisse, Joey Barton, SWP, Luke Young, Stephen Caulker, Sandro, Jordan Mitch, Alex McCarthy, Kieran Dyer.
 
OBZ was also purchased during that period.....

Forgivable for that 1 moment but otherwise meh....
 
Completely forgivable imo.

Wouldn't swap that moment for much.
It certainly paid for him but then we paid again through the nose for not replacing Redknapp during the pre-season. Oh no! Tony had to give him the keys to the vault because of his amazing success in returning us to where he had been before he failed to keep us up. Just about. Still, it was a great moment which will live long in the memory - probably because it was so unexpected at the time and we were right behind the trajectory. One of those moments when you knew we'd scored as soon as it left his boot.

That game was also Rob Green's finest hour for us