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Boro were ok defensively, but lacked creativity, pace and goals.

Unfortunately yes. We’re as good as relegated. TB should have done the courageous thing, sacking Barber, Winstanley and Hughton in December. That would have given a new manager a full transfer window to bring in players better than flops Ulloa and Locadia.

Your post nails the main issues.

Spot on about net spend - it's is for number crunchers. But gross spend / squad cost, and wages spend, is in general a determinate of squad quality. Players keeps clubs up.

Far easier said than done. In the vast majority of cases, teams stay down. Far better to give CH the tools to stay part of the £100m gravy train.

Propper. Agajnst B’muff when he was caught in possession, any opposing midfielder simply destroyed him for pace.

He gave his trust a year ago to those employed to bring us top flight quality atrikers. He can’t do everything.

Is correct. The club’s business model loses £20m to £35m per Championship season. Most of the parachute income simply mitigates the losses/huge outgoings.

This. £100m extra from broadcasting alone. Plus countless £m’s from greater advertising revenue, ticket price rises, sell outs, corporate hospitality and merchandising.

Yes. Bloom has a chance to alter this trajectory. Or it's 2 years of parachute payments to prevent losses, then huge annual losses bankrolled by Bloom yet again. The balls in his court.