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The playing budget MUST increase year on year just to stay still, because the football economy is spiraling out of control. I'll concentrate my point down to one position centre back:- The club employed Upson on big money. Upson left, leaving the club short of a quality centre back. The club...

The budget increased because it has to, just to stand still. I'm saying the budget wasn't increased to a level to maintain a competitive team. That came home to roost last season, with a junior manager and a very poor squad of cheaper replacements. It's great to see a squad coming together...

Arrrggghh, they replaced Barnes, Koosh, Buckley, Ulloa, Bridcutt all on permanent contracts. You can't have it both ways, esp in a rising economy. Those players were bought in probably for more money than the ones they replaced, therefore the budget has risen. But the quality didn't rise with...

It certainly feels that way, my mojo is very much on the up. It's good to see Tony clearly had enough of last seasons BS, along with the rest of us. Gotta love having a fan as the boss. Not to mention maybe last seasons receipts stung even more than we thought. Better mojo = more spending.

What's that total spend compared to this Summer, with more rumoured to be on the way?

Yes the playing budget. All of a sudden the club has found multi millions of pounds to bring in some potentially exciting signings. Sure money has been made in the transfer market, but that's all relative when carrying such a massive on going debt. Of course money has been saved from the wage...

All Oscar would have needed to do was employ one player on a £1 contract to have a bigger budget. It's clear DB wasn't allowed to bring in £5 - £10m worth of quality in for Oscar and Sami. The initial outlay was pitiful and that ended up showing on the pitch. Sami's team wasn't let down by...

Sure there's a degree of fishing here but irrespective of that, the millions being spent this summer does seem to be at odds with last seasons available 'up front' spending.

Yeah you're quite right. Even though Burker was employed by the Albion, for exactly a year prior to Leo's arrival, he had nothing to do with the transfer. Please don't make out Burker was responsible for everything that was shite. Yet everything that went well at that time, Stockdale, Walton...

He certainly wasn't distracted by all the millions he had to spend.

But other than that...

His predecessor and now his replacement spend money like it's going out of fashion. While he had to trawl around the bargain basement, loan list, and youth set ups to try a put a team together. Obviously all the sheep will instantly start bleating on about how shitehouse Burker was, but it's...