They were silly enough to spend 52mil on poor value, second quality players and look where it has landed us!

Man u, Liverpool, Chelsea and PSG, benteke still had one of the best goals to games ratio, townsend was Newcastle best player last year, most on here were crying because dann wasn't getting an England cap and mcarthur would of been most fans best player.

There were those of us that were skeptical about our transfer activity, mainly with the players and positions that we didn't sign in, rather than the players that we did sign.

Townsend heavily favouring the right side to replace the outgoing Bolasie showed a huge lack of foresight on Pardews part. That, along with not signing a backup left-back and selling our only recognised CDM. Pardew left us with an incredibly inflexible and imbalanced squad. Is it any coincidence that Allardyce's fist signing was Schlupp; a versatile left sided player?

I'd be surprised if allardyce or the club had any intention of him staying past this season anyway.
His seen our squad thought he could come in have a easy time and get a nice bonus before going his own way. His came in and realised there's a lot more work to do than he envisaged, doesn't look interested in the slightest and has already started using the market as an excuse.
Hopefully he keeps us up and both parties can go their separate ways.

Edited by rikz (23 Jan 2017 12.21pm)

blame the board

@sxp55555

and why did they come to us? because no one else wanted them and they were not good enough to get game time at their previous clubs, look at Beneteka for example Klopp knew his limitations but needed to get Liverpools investment back, who came along and spent up to 32 Mil on him when no one else was interested at that price? I think the 32 mil could have been spent much better than what we have got!