I doubt Vicente was blameless in the situation. He came with baggage from Valencia where he'd fallen out with the club (primarily the medical staff) and was certainly quite 'delicate' in his time here. Perhaps Gus just wasn't used to dealing with players like that (BIG step up from the likes of...
he played in 4 games. Mostly off the bench. I think his only start was away at Luton alongside Mark McCammon (worst strike partnership ever?)
we lost every game he played
he also played in a friendly whilst on trial against Lewes. He looked like he'd literally never played football before or he was a fan who'd won a competition and was allowed to play for a laugh
....and then we signed him
I'd say given the financial position the club were in it is absolutely MIND BLOWING that we paid £150k for Turienzo. We were spending next to nothing on players at the time so to splash that out on a complete unknown was utterly ludicrous
I was also FLABBERGASTED when we paid £300k on Murray...