Whilst I agree in principle W4, even if Carew was on £30k a week, that would still only be £1.5m over the season. Baldock cost us £2m, Long went to West Brom for £7m or something like that, Bristol City were quoting £4m for Maynard and Leicester CIty are about to pay £3m for a bloke who in his previous 2 seasons managed 8 goals!?w4hammer wrote:
..that, sir, is the art of management! I think you're overlooking one thing, a lot of these makeweights sam has brought in/kept have cost us a LOAD of money - like the earlier chap said- not many sides can boast Carew as a third choice striker - my mum would have a better scoring rate than that useless lump- we shouldn't be waiting until the end of the season to realise that he's picked up too many cheap and past it players- and if, if we manage to get up, we dont want to be buying in July--nows the time for G&S to TRULY put their hands in their pockets and strengthen where needed- and no, we're not leicester where they basically bought a new team in a month- we need three/four decent players in total - nibbling around with bids which we keep raising/holding has never worked in the past for us. Pick who we want; inform the other manager; bring the f***ing bacon home
G and S are not TRULY going to put their hands in their pockets until the Premier League is definitely in our grasp...and even then, there will be an air of caution (as their should be). You don't buy your way out of that debt....you try and get into the league that will give you the most money and stay there. And the most sensible way to do that is through short-term, low-risk deals and sensible management.
Which, I think is what has happened so far this season.