Maybe so but that doesn't excuse getting an injury prone player in on loan with his parent club's coaches who know him better than anyone saying he's a striker and going against their expert advice and playing him in midfield.
He could if he had used his budget efficiently. Burnley paid £6.5m for Gray, with £3.5m in add ons. I assume those add ons will be related to promotion. So only paid once the team has a much bigger purse from the PL coffers. We have quite probably spent more than £6.5m on players that aren't even playing for us at present in wages and fees. Taylor/Diomande/Dusan/Powell/Hayden Akpom/Maloney. I would even argue that we needed a striker more than we needed Odubajo - I like Dave, he's played well. But we'd just signed Taylor and we had Elmo. That's another £3.5m that could have gone on a striker. We should have kept Rosenior. Could cover both flanks no fee involved loved the area and very vocal. Whatever the wages, we wouldn't have had an additional transfer fee. Our transfer business has been incredibly poor.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/hull-out-automatic-promotion-race-11166998 does Brucie understand the concept of motivation?
It's difficult to measure 'good' except in empirical terms.... My point was our rivals this time round seem better equipped and more determined than the previous two times. Transfer business often takes weeks as players/agents hold out for the best deals, so it's not always possible to sign the players you want in the sequence you want. We saw this in 2008 when Fraizer Campbell's old man strung us along in the summer and we forgot to look elsewhere.
Ending up with Marlon King was a bit better than ending up with Prozzy, Sagbo, and Danny Graham even though he was a ****
Gray was £6m and there's only an extra £500k in add-on's, based on promotion (according to their CEO).
Ending up with Marlon King was a lot better than ending up with the others you mention. King could score goals but he was a knobhead off the pitch and his falling out with Deano was a major factor in our decline in form during the 2nd half of that season IMO.
I'm finding it staggering based on all that we now know, that Aston Villa (paper talk) are prepared to offer us £2 million for the **** of a manager that we have.
I did mean East. I'm organising going to Birmingham tomorrow and temporarily upgraded you to nicer settings. My mistake apologies.
It's that bad around here, you can buy a two bedroom terrace for the price of a 6 bedroom, twin garage house with enormous gardens in Hessle.
850k, or 775k for a less nice 3 bed terrace. Or another way of looking at it, a 1 bedroom flat costs the same as a 3 bedroom semi detached house in Hessle.
Good job I don't live in Hessle - though I'm sure if you look in the right areas of Hessle you could find a house considerably more expensive.
