"The biggest financial gamble on a player by the club?"
- Chris Hughton
Right-o. ???
And we DID know we were signing a manager who knows what it takes to get to the PL. He's done it several times before. Apart from that, good post.
I don't think CMS was a financial gamble as such. It was pocket money to Bloom. He was just a HORRIFIC waste of money, as it turned out.
We were all happy at the time though.
Good question. £300k back then for Murray was EYEWATERING. I remember at least one of my eyebrows venturing northwards when that happened. Thankfully he paid us back in goals goals GOALS (even though we got no cashback, thanks Gus). What sort of state were we in when Andy Ritchie signed ? The...