I understand your angry outburst. You are probably feeling a little stupid. As you should be. You are not a 'fellow fan', you are someone who comes on here and makes grand sweeping generalisations which are usually bollocks.
Seriously, don't post any more on this. You are only exposing your ignorance.
But since you seem to be struggling, if Garcia had been in situ in April he would have had his list, been targeting players, and through Burke/Barber speaking to agents.
Because we weren't in that position and it...
I'm sorry, that is nonsense. The idea he was starting from scratch flies with me because, err, he was. When he started the job.
If you want a definition of 'no hangover', look at Leicester after what happened to them in the play-offs last season.
How can you possibly claim there was no...
This is of course 100 per cent correct as well. Team strengthening really begins in April. We didn't start, at least not with Garcia, until almost July. That's not a few days behind, it is months behind even if Burke was doing some stuff on this without the new manager's blessing.
I think others have nailed it. The OP is focusing on entirely the wrong thing.
The biggest challenge for Garcia was trying to knit together a club that had been left in turmoil by the Poyet sacking, everything that led up to it, the huge play-off disappointment and a bewildered dressing room...