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So is Bournemouth's business model based on paying as much as it takes to get quality players in, regardless of how much that amounts to? And what if every club in the division were able to follow that sort of business model ... someone will still finish 26th! What do you say to the chairman...

It's all so simple isn't it? The club identifies the quality players it needs, we offer to pay the transfer fees and wages that they and their agents demand - the 'market rate'. If other clubs offer more than the 'market rate', we outbid them and we keep doing so until we get our man...

Do we really need a forensic examination of the Chairman's travel arrangements to prove what was said and done? You can try to 'deduce' as much as you like, you'll never know all the facts and does it really matter any more?

How do you know they weren't 'football people' too?