I said it before we tried to do things on the cheap with transfers. I am talking about transfer fees and not wages. We actually did cheap transfers. Most we bought cost little or nothing but we paid big wages and agents fees. Granero might be the exception but i have heard we paid 3 million for him and other in other places 9 million. So don't know the truth of this. If we are really paying Cesar £80,000 a week and Green £50,000 a week we must be mad. Could have a great goalie in for that money and the same is true of lot of other positions. If we had paid bigger transfers and less on wages and agents we might have got the right players in.
Very good post, sums up how different the reality was from the hype and why we are in the state we are. Thanks for summing it up so well
In hindsight we got it wrong, but I don't think a single person predicted we would be in this position when we saw all these ' good ' signings arriving. Oh how wrong we were!
No we didn't. Scary stuff indeed. Although to be fair one or two raised a red warning flag, and we laughed at them.
Its funny because if you folow twitter (as North will confirm) there were many posters complaining about our signings and totally unhappy at the start of the season. I never really thought we'd be this bad although i predicted 16-17th spot this season...!!
I think a few other fans from other clubs mentioned paying big salaries could make us another Portsmouth, and they hoped we would end up the same. Bit of Jealousy at the time. Unfortunately they may have been right!
I still think it was prob best to do it this way. I believe we have a fair few players with relegation release causes? If/when we go down they will all be gone thus reducing our wage bill to quite a lot instead of a massive amount! this would give Harry a blank canvas bar a few of the original players (Hopefully the likes of Faurin and Adel will stay). If we had spent massive amounts on players with smaller wages and still given them release causes then we would have lost more?
