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PS Agreed on your pre-amble. The summer recruitment hasn't worked out and Hyypia was proven to be a costly mistake. He's gone and Burke has been sacked. Not much more we can do about that now. So, given that it is the case, still interested in this idea that throwing, yet more, money at it...

We nursed Elphick back to fitness for over a year paying his wages so not sure what you mean there. As for why they went . Perhaps it was because for football reasons Gus thought he had better centre-halves on the book ahead of them in the queue and he couldn't offer them reasonable game time or...

How would you have got, lets say, Darren Bent to join us when Derby were also offering him a contract. Even assuming , if you were running the show, you'd be offering him more money. Interested in what you'd have recommended Hughton/recruitment should have done. And who are the player (s) that...

I was teasing. The OP was arguing that Elphick and Cook left because the board were "penny pinching" which is something i was scratching my head over. Because it would have made virtually no difference to the wage bill and their transfer fees were modest.

We let Elphick and Cook for "penny pinching" ? Sorry. Not sure i understand. Because we *needed* the 100K or so that we transferred them for to Bournemouth and/or because we were paying them high wages we couldn't afford in comparison to other players in the squad ?