It's this quote from Bozza on the barber/holloway on talkshite thread that has me really spooked...
"Quite pointed from Holloway, as expected, on the sacking of Hughton.
Barber's response largely hinging on a belief that Hughton didn't get the best out of the (new) players he had."
Kin Hell.
This is broadly where I am.
There is one further possibility: that Tony et al believe that, despite being cheap in PL terms, Locadia, Ali J, Andone, and 2-3 U23s have been sadly overlooked and poorly managed; with the right management we’ll be able to keep the payroll the same (broadly) but...