Any source for that? Or just your opinion?

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When one is unable to lavish significant sums on transfers then of course this limits what one can spend.

Our transfer policy is the same as the other bottom 12 clubs (probably excluding West Ham now they have a bigger budget with their 60k seater stadium) we buy to survive. Look at Fulham, they have spent 100+ million. Huddersfield, 60 million....Southampton blew all the VVD money and are 3 points worse off than us. United have spent 400+ million and are going backwards. Every club will look at their transfer policy and think they could do better. We have brought some good players over the past 5 years, but we have also brought players with little to no impact. That’s the problem when you go through so many managers. They all want their players and other players get disregarded.

I agree, we don’t have a long term plan and perhaps we need to persist with manager through thick and thin to try and get some stability. Big Sam has experience in keeping teams up, but has zero experience on pushing clubs on which I believe is our aim.

I think if Roy is our manager, he should have more of a say (if he has none already).

My understanding is that the deal was £9 Mill rising to £16.5 Mill with all the add-ons.

The deal is a matter of public record. Your understanding is correct (maybe give or take for foreign exchange) But crucially the add ons are solely contingent on us remaining in the prem.

So even if he continues to be complete shyte (which I expect will be the case), we still have to pay.

A terrible, ruinous deal.

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Here’s an interview with one of our crack scouting team bigging up Jaroslaw Jach.

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Now where did I put that facepalm emoji...

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