The Ricky van Wolfswinkel signing from his Norwich days worries me a bit as parralels can be drawn, big money and heralded as a huge signing for Norwich at the time, had a good goalscoring record in Portugal but flopped badly. How much involvement Hughton had in that transfer and whether he got...
Assuming 40 million is the parachute payment rate for a club's first season down, plus them somehow getting 30 million for Sissoko and flogging a few other French flops, they didn't really have to invest anything outside of their regular income to get back up, and they probably wouldn't have...
I'd argue that Newcastle are a slightly different case as they are the "big club" that "should never have been relegated in the first place", but the lack of spending means that in relative terms Rafa is secure in his job as he has limited options and quality available to him. Were they to have...
His position shouldn't be under threat particularly as he would be the safe pair of hands that we would need if the worst happened, but he should be questioned for some of his decisions, like the bizarre substitutions and certain elements of his game plans.