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I didn't say we can't or didn't sign him because we didn't sell Dunk. I meant that if we had a bit more money to play with, we might have been able to get the deal done in August. Offer an extra couple of million and the deal might have gone through sooner (i.e. might still happen, but also...

You suggested Dunk was part of an established back five. He played in one game. There were 7 games in August (the period during which we could have taken that £5m offer). Considering it was the other five who established a run of results (as opposed to just one) we wouldn't have been breaking up...

Now he is. Back when we were getting offers for him, Dunk played one game then sat on the bench while Stockdale, Bruno, Greer, Huenemeier and Bong were the back five keeping clean sheets and building the foundation for our early season success. So it wouldn't have been breaking up the defence...

Couldn't they? Or did they just not have the budget for it? Maybe there wasn't a 5m striker out there, but they had 5m in the budget, and 5m from the sale of Dunk would allow them to stretch to a more expensive one.

How do you know? Sometimes strikers click one year, simply finally 'getting it' (whatever it is for them - an attitude, a technique, etc), and one who may look to you like 10-15 goals a season at best, could bang in those 25. One who has only ever achieved up to 10-15 in his career might show...