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V Block per chance?

Well, you are likening Dick to Abramovich or that chap at Hearts who picks the team. Turienzo was a huge balls up, but I thought you were referring to a number of examples. I would be far more concerned if Dick had refused to purchase a player that the manager wanted (if we could afford him)...

What interference though? I can only think of ONE *possible* example with Dick purchasing Turienzo on a recommendation from various people. So why did Dick go back to Hammond and Savage with several improved contracts?

I am not overly sure what you mean by interfering. We have now had many managers operating under (Deadly) Dick and have any ever expressed their contempt for him and the business of transfers? Of course the chairman is going to have some form of control over who we sign as he is not going to...

I don't know about you, but if I were a chairman, I would be inclined to have a look at what we were buying. I would rather have a chairman that was genuinely interested, rather than a Risdale type character who just signs cheques willy-nilly and frog marches into contract talks throwing any...

McFaul is another. I think we beat a few clubs to his signature, but it appears to be an 'extended trial'. Whether he will get another contract at the end of the season, remains to be seen.

Perhaps I am being a bit thick here, but I do not understand this ‘Hammond desperately wanted to stay’ which has been peddled by a few people. BigGully and bhadeb being the main protagonists. I would have thought that not signing a contract offer that had been in place for a while would suggest...