TheWolfman
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I think if the right player is available at the right price we would have bought players in. The media circus around Spence and the transfer fee didn't help. clubs started taking the ****. Rightly so we didn't over commit. We can't afford too.Brought in a great manager but probably under false pretences that we’d have big bucks to spend in the summer provided he stabilised us and aimed for a playoff challenge. Probably underplayed the head of recruitment role as we did with Warnock and as such Wilder didn’t get his targets and the club didn’t match his ambition, hence we started the season having signed a lot of talented free agents to compensate as opposed to five or six good squad players. This has then made it harder for the squad to gel and led to the form at the start of the season carrying over.
Add to that the fact that FFP has led to the Tav and Djed money going towards keeping us out of the red and I think Wilder’s seen that his three year project was probably never going to come to fruition, leading to him looking elsewhere as rumoured.
Think we’ve lost the best manager we’ve appointed since Karanka here, and we’ll regret it when he takes his next club into the Prem whilst we plod into 18th with Steve Bruce in charge having given Rob Edwards about six months before giving him the chop too.
Yeah its left us way short but that's where we are today and I'm sure there is money there for the right players come January.