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Would that not include wages being paid for players signed/contracts extended years ago though? Again I have no idea about the numbers but it does seem that we've struggled to match wages demanded/offered elsewhere (Ward, Grabban), whereas previously this didn't seem to happen. Edit - point I...

Fair enough, can't argue with that. Which begs the question, where is this money then? We've not really shelled it out on transfer fees (especially in light of what has come in), and one would imagine (or hope) the players we have signed aren't on particularly high wages (obviously we're paying...

I read the comments, I understand them, and I wrote "replaced" instead of "sacked", which can sometimes mean the same thing. A simple layman such as myself would look at money spent in previous years, our inability to get certain "done deals" done and the reliance on loan and free transfers...

Bloody hell - one slightly mis-used word and you're talking to me like a child, haven't you got anything better to do on Xmas eve? My KEY point is that I don't think bad decision making by Burke is the ONLY reason we have a poor squad, and unless the right manager is given more money to spend...

You are right about Upson, I apologise. My point was that we didn't seem to significantly weaken things under Garcia, which included some dealings by the recruitment setup. The last point I was trying to make is that it is quite clear that for the last year or so our signings have been done on...

I don'd disagree, if you look at my initial post on this thread I said I was cautiously optimistic depending on who now gets the money and what it is spent on. I am just unsure the status of our current squad can be overly pinned on Burke.

Upson, Ward, Stephens (until injury, don't spose Burke did the medicals!), Stockdale starting to look decent. Not trying to argue he's got things right because he clearly hasn't, no-one is over the moon with this season's squad. I have no idea of the intricacies of the roles between managers and...

No, I have no idea. I have no insider knowledge at all. Care to say why you know it? On the face of it, it seems a bit unfair to credit all of the good signings under Poyet to him, but then to blame all of the bad signings this year on Burke. Couple of good bits of business during Oscar's...

Do you know that?

Ok maybe I worded it a bit too strongly. But my point is to get a fully proven goalscoring forward 6ft + you are going to have to part with a lot more than 500k or whatever we paid for COG. To me the fault for our current situation goes Hypia > Reduced Budget/Sales of top players > Burke...

We also signed a proven Championship goalscorer who is supposed to have a bit of presence. Turned out to be a dud but nothing is guaranteed to work out.

Brought in many a good player during his tenure (although probably outnumbered by ones not good enough) - don't forget he was in the job when we had 2 playoff squads as well as this season's shambles. We'll never know how constrained he was by budgets, and although the current squad is clearly...