Well not completely.Leroy Fer was off to the profligate and newly promoted QPR for £8m and Snodgrass was Prem League bound to Hull for £7m.
That c£20m Parachute Payament (the same as Albion's wage bill) they had for being relegated won't have hurt either in maintaining a strong squad..
If gambling by spending heavily to get to the Prem League is the answer then Isn't Bloom's £205m so far and due to increase heavily again next season quite a gamble ? Or does the fact that he gambled by spending heavily on Baldock and Holla and Stockdale last season and it didn't come off not...
So how come all that investment in players by Blackburn (41 goals from their 2 strikers), but not so much spending from Ipswich but goalscoring strikers nonetheless (27 goals from Murphy), and Derby (Martin 18 goals, Bent 10 goals in 15 appearances) or come to that matter Brentford, Boro with...
A really harsh view. Oscar took the club to its 2nd highest position in the league in 30 years, and the play offs with what most argued was a weaker squad than Gus in 12/13. A success by any yardstick especially given he had no Championship experience. He was a real find by the club.
In the...
He's arguing that the club is a) isn't successfully run, b) that the money he's invested wasn't well spent, c) that fans shouldn't be "star struck" by how Bloom has transformed the club, d) that Dick Knight's role in the club was comparable, b) that the club needs a new backer/owner with...
So you want Bloom, who clearly isn't up to it in your view, lacking in "football brains" and that £205m he's invested in the club is mere peanuts given he's a rich bloke, to leave the club ? Mostly on the basis, as far as i can tell, that he spent millions signed Chris O Grady and a few others...