Yep, I agree entirely.
I wonder how that philosophy will work in the PL, if we get promoted? I suspect that it will conflict with not getting relegated...
No.
Any team that doesn't have Calde in it has lost 45 people's worth of likeability. So even if our squad was Calde plus 24 Joey Barton's, it'd still be more likeable than any other squad assembled anywhere at any time.
Actually, yes, I can't think of a squad in my time that has such...