Not sure I agree. The alternative can mean a manager agreeing all sorts of expensive shite just to sign a player they've got the hots for, completely screwing up the budget and before you know it, hello Portsmouth or even the Albion after 83/4. Having the structure we have reduces this risk. It...
If Burke has to conduct transfer negotiations with a finite pot of money and clear matters with Barber/Bloom; we can't really point the finger at him for the failure to - for example - sign Grabban.