Spunking moneh away

[Bladezz]

I keep reading on here about how Wilder spunked our money away. I’ve always thought overall we did good with transfers with him but thought best take a look back. Fees using transfer market.com

Pre Premiership (recap)
Sold Dcl
Sold Brooks

Bought Egan
Bought Norwood.
Few good Free’s

Overall: Fantastic 11/10 League one to Premiership. Whilst making a profit.

First season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note.

Bought: Berge for 20m
Bought: Mcburnie 17m
Bought: Mousett 10m
Bought: Robinson 6m
Bought: Freeman 4m
Bought: Osborn 3m

Overall: 8/10 we finished 9th in the Premier-league playing fantastic football. Berge was touted by clubs in Europe ended up selling for a similar figure after helping us to promotion. Mcburnie currently our best player. Mousset for the one season was worth the 10m. Robinson / Freeman not very good and Osborn was okay he’s played a lot but nothing special.

Second season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note

Bought: Brewster 22m
Bought: Ramsdale 18m
Bought: Burke (Swop for Robinson)
Bought : Bogle 3m
Bought : Lowe 3m

Overall 5/10. League position horrific and Brewster since Wilder left has sat on the injury table and been crocked ever since. Ramsdale we sold for big profit and now plays for Arsenal. Burke I don’t even want to talk about awful player (no argument the Robinson money virtually went on him we spunked that. Bogle and Lowe for their money are very good. Bogle has a very exciting future. Lowe is very hot and cold but £3m in PL is nothing.

So this argument about how Wilder spunked money. Looking back with hindsight Brewster and his injuries seems very poor, but he made that money back with Ramsdale. Burke is dreadful. The others overall look good signings. Large majority of the team got us 90 points in the Championship too.

Myth: Busted.

 

[Stegosaurus]

Bought: Berge for 20m
Bought: Mcburnie 17m
Bought: Mousett 10m
Bought: Robinson 6m
Bought: Freeman 4m
Bought: Osborn 3m

Hi Stegosaurus here,

1 - Overrated, sold at a loss
2 - Not a terrible player, but not worth 17 mil.
3 - An embarassment of a footballer. Lots of talent, completely wasted
4 - Pointless signing
5 - Barely kicked a ball for us
6 - Not a bad signing for that price

Bought: Brewster 22m
Bought: Ramsdale 18m
Bought: Burke (Swop for Robinson)
Bought : Bogle 3m
Bought : Lowe 3m

1 - Complete waste of money
2 - Ramsdale is shit, can't believe we sold him for a profit. Did Arsenal even watch him play for us?
3 - Burke is absolute garbage and I cant believe teams still take a chance with him. He's a classic example of a player who once had a high fee paid for him, so managers just assume he must be decent when in truth he's barely League 1 level.
4 - Bogle - Good signing
5 - Not as good as Bogle, but a decent signing.

 

[Big.Dane.w]

Hi Stegosaurus here,

1 - Overrated, sold at a loss
2 - Not a terrible player, but not worth 17 mil.
3 - An embarassment of a footballer. Lots of talent, completely wasted
4 - Pointless signing
5 - Barely kicked a ball for us
6 - Not a bad signing for that price



1 - Complete waste of money
2 - Ramsdale is shit, can't believe we sold him for a profit. Did Arsenal even watch him play for us?
3 - Burke is absolute garbage and I cant believe teams still take a chance with him. He's a classic example of a player who once had a high fee paid for him, so managers just assume he must be decent when in truth he's barely League 1 level.
4 - Bogle - Good signing
5 - Not as good as Bogle, but a decent signing.

Have to agree with this assessment.

Not sure about Lowe being a decent signing though, league 1 standard player.

 

[jono_t2000]

I keep reading on here about how Wilder spunked our money away. I’ve always thought overall we did good with transfers with him but thought best take a look back. Fees using transfer market.com

Pre Premiership (recap)
Sold Dcl
Sold Brooks

Bought Egan
Bought Norwood.
Few good Free’s

Overall: Fantastic 11/10 League one to Premiership. Whilst making a profit.

First season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note.

Bought: Berge for 20m
Bought: Mcburnie 17m
Bought: Mousett 10m
Bought: Robinson 6m
Bought: Freeman 4m
Bought: Osborn 3m

Overall: 8/10 we finished 9th in the Premier-league playing fantastic football. Berge was touted by clubs in Europe ended up selling for a similar figure after helping us to promotion. Mcburnie currently our best player. Mousset for the one season was worth the 10m. Robinson / Freeman not very good and Osborn was okay he’s played a lot but nothing special.

Second season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note

Bought: Brewster 22m
Bought: Ramsdale 18m
Bought: Burke (Swop for Robinson)
Bought : Bogle 3m
Bought : Lowe 3m

Overall 5/10. League position horrific and Brewster since Wilder left has sat on the injury table and been crocked ever since. Ramsdale we sold for big profit and now plays for Arsenal. Burke I don’t even want to talk about awful player (no argument the Robinson money virtually went on him we spunked that. Bogle and Lowe for their money are very good. Bogle has a very exciting future. Lowe is very hot and cold but £3m in PL is nothing.

So this argument about how Wilder spunked money. Looking back with hindsight Brewster and his injuries seems very poor, but he made that money back with Ramsdale. Burke is dreadful. The others overall look good signings. Large majority of the team got us 90 points in the Championship too.

Myth: Busted.

Depends how you consider season 1 spending.

Berge was only signed in Jan after we were off to a flyer and secure from relegation anyway.

All the rest we didn't/won't get the money back that we purchased them for.

Guess it depends on what you class as spunking money as a club aiming to be self sustainable.

 

[Houso]

That's all pretty fair, but if you're going to praise frees of other seasons, you can't then ignore the money wasted (in wages) for the likes of Morrison and Rodwell. Not to mention a couple of awful loans.

The other argument is that while some of these players weren't bad in isolation, when you consider what we needed and what those players brought to us (Brewster and Berge in particular), they can't be judged successes. Even Ramsdale - may have been sold for a profit, but did we need to spend that much money on a keeper? And he was pretty bloody poor for much of thst season.

 

[Bladezz]

That's all pretty fair, but if you're going to praise frees of other seasons, you can't then ignore the money wasted (in wages) for the likes of Morrison and Rodwell. Not to mention a couple of awful loans.

The other argument is that while some of these players weren't bad in isolation, when you consider what we needed and what those players brought to us (Brewster and Berge in particular), they can't be judged successes. Even Ramsdale - may have been sold for a profit, but did we need to spend that much money on a keeper? And he was pretty bloody poor for much of thst season.

Hence why I didn’t mention the amazing loans of Henderson and the free transfers we have made such as Didzy / Fleck etc

 

[Houso]

Hence why I didn’t mention the amazing loans of Henderson and the free transfers we have made such as Didzy / Fleck etc

You were only looking at EPL/champ signings no? Hendo I'll give you obv.

 

[Rodley]

That's all pretty fair, but if you're going to praise frees of other seasons, you can't then ignore the money wasted (in wages) for the likes of Morrison and Rodwell. Not to mention a couple of awful loans.

The other argument is that while some of these players weren't bad in isolation, when you consider what we needed and what those players brought to us (Brewster and Berge in particular), they can't be judged successes. Even Ramsdale - may have been sold for a profit, but did we need to spend that much money on a keeper? And he was pretty bloody poor for much of thst season.

Rodwell and Morrison were complete shots to nothing. We’ve done the same this season with Traore, Slimane etc., arguably at greater cost.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Not sure about Lowe being a decent signing though, league 1 standard player.

Who played consecutive seasons in teams that were promoted from the Championship.

 

[Houso]

Rodwell and Morrison were complete shots to nothing. We’ve done the same this season with Traore, Slimane etc., arguably at greater cost.

They were the signings of a man who believed his own hype. I loved Wilder (and wouldn't be against him returning in all honesty), but they were ridiculous signings.

 

[Carlton Blade]

He brought in 1,000's of quality performances for about £7m total before promotion.

Wright, JOC, Fleck, Duffy, Moore, Clarke, Baldock, Stearman, Stevens, Lundstram, Didzy, Norwood, Egan. Even with the PL stuff. Wes and Robinson for £250k has produced well over £10m in value based on their performances.

We have no money to "spunk". So I fail to see your point. He fell apart at the end and I don'twant him back. His overall transfer record is still in huge amounts of credit

 

[DronnieBlade]

Really depends if your own personal perspective is such that Oli Mc is currently our best player I spose !

80% bobbar .

UTB

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

I keep reading on here about how Wilder spunked our money away. I’ve always thought overall we did good with transfers with him but thought best take a look back. Fees using transfer market.com

Pre Premiership (recap)
Sold Dcl
Sold Brooks

Bought Egan
Bought Norwood.
Few good Free’s

Overall: Fantastic 11/10 League one to Premiership. Whilst making a profit.

First season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note.

Bought: Berge for 20m
Bought: Mcburnie 17m
Bought: Mousett 10m
Bought: Robinson 6m
Bought: Freeman 4m
Bought: Osborn 3m

Overall: 8/10 we finished 9th in the Premier-league playing fantastic football. Berge was touted by clubs in Europe ended up selling for a similar figure after helping us to promotion. Mcburnie currently our best player. Mousset for the one season was worth the 10m. Robinson / Freeman not very good and Osborn was okay he’s played a lot but nothing special.

Second season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note

Bought: Brewster 22m
Bought: Ramsdale 18m
Bought: Burke (Swop for Robinson)
Bought : Bogle 3m
Bought : Lowe 3m

Overall 5/10. League position horrific and Brewster since Wilder left has sat on the injury table and been crocked ever since. Ramsdale we sold for big profit and now plays for Arsenal. Burke I don’t even want to talk about awful player (no argument the Robinson money virtually went on him we spunked that. Bogle and Lowe for their money are very good. Bogle has a very exciting future. Lowe is very hot and cold but £3m in PL is nothing.

So this argument about how Wilder spunked money. Looking back with hindsight Brewster and his injuries seems very poor, but he made that money back with Ramsdale. Burke is dreadful. The others overall look good signings. Large majority of the team got us 90 points in the Championship too.

Myth: Busted.

Obviously in his early years here he was a legend, so taking an average, it's hard to knock him.
But we are now in the Prem, and how he spent money there is what should be considered. His spending and attitude in that time was awful, second season especially . So, comparing like-like, it was spunked, and we were effectively burdened with that afterwards.

 

[bornablade]

I keep reading on here about how Wilder spunked our money away. I’ve always thought overall we did good with transfers with him but thought best take a look back. Fees using transfer market.com

Pre Premiership (recap)
Sold Dcl
Sold Brooks

Bought Egan
Bought Norwood.
Few good Free’s

Overall: Fantastic 11/10 League one to Premiership. Whilst making a profit.

First season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note.

Bought: Berge for 20m
Bought: Mcburnie 17m
Bought: Mousett 10m
Bought: Robinson 6m
Bought: Freeman 4m
Bought: Osborn 3m

Overall: 8/10 we finished 9th in the Premier-league playing fantastic football. Berge was touted by clubs in Europe ended up selling for a similar figure after helping us to promotion. Mcburnie currently our best player. Mousset for the one season was worth the 10m. Robinson / Freeman not very good and Osborn was okay he’s played a lot but nothing special.

Second season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note

Bought: Brewster 22m
Bought: Ramsdale 18m
Bought: Burke (Swop for Robinson)
Bought : Bogle 3m
Bought : Lowe 3m

Overall 5/10. League position horrific and Brewster since Wilder left has sat on the injury table and been crocked ever since. Ramsdale we sold for big profit and now plays for Arsenal. Burke I don’t even want to talk about awful player (no argument the Robinson money virtually went on him we spunked that. Bogle and Lowe for their money are very good. Bogle has a very exciting future. Lowe is very hot and cold but £3m in PL is nothing.

So this argument about how Wilder spunked money. Looking back with hindsight Brewster and his injuries seems very poor, but he made that money back with Ramsdale. Burke is dreadful. The others overall look good signings. Large majority of the team got us 90 points in the Championship too.

Myth: Busted.

You should have been a politician. Designing your answers and then asking the questions.

Hecky has improved McBurnie. Hecky had the nerve to play Iliman.

Think that may trump anything Wilder did.

 

[Champagneblade]

Hi Stegosaurus here,

1 - Overrated, sold at a loss
2 - Not a terrible player, but not worth 17 mil.
3 - An embarassment of a footballer. Lots of talent, completely wasted
4 - Pointless signing
5 - Barely kicked a ball for us
6 - Not a bad signing for that price



1 - Complete waste of money
2 - Ramsdale is shit, can't believe we sold him for a profit. Did Arsenal even watch him play for us?
3 - Burke is absolute garbage and I cant believe teams still take a chance with him. He's a classic example of a player who once had a high fee paid for him, so managers just assume he must be decent when in truth he's barely League 1 level.
4 - Bogle - Good signing
5 - Not as good as Bogle, but a decent signing.

I’m with you on this.

Very few post promotion money signings can be regarded as hits. In fact the team that got to 9th were largely 10/11 of the promotion team bought through modest means.

Ironically McBurnie who had a couple of forgettable years will end up proving a decent long term investment the longer he stays. Hopefully he signs a new deal. He was good last year and he’s matured with age to become a key player, though he’s been better since he’s not had Wilder trying to turn him into Jon Parkin.

Apart from Ramsdale who was more bad than good for us and who benefited from Pope and Hendo being injured at the right time, all the major signings have lost value. Mousset’s 10m loss wipes out our Ramsdale gain. Some like Brewster (likely loss 23.5m) have significantly lost value. Others like Freeman (5-6m loss), Robinson and Burke (7m, swapped for 1.5m and then release for free) were an awful waste and pointless signings, not to mention the 1m here or there on Rodwell and Morrison. I’m not sure 22m and sold for 12m rising to 15m equates to ‘more or less what we paid either’!

Wilder was brilliant for 3/4 years but when it comes to investing big money in the club he didn’t excel at all.

 

[Stegosaurus]

He brought in 1,000's of quality performances for about £7m total before promotion.

Wright, JOC, Fleck, Duffy, Moore, Clarke, Baldock, Stearman, Stevens, Lundstram, Didzy, Norwood, Egan. Even with the PL stuff. Wes and Robinson for £250k has produced well over £10m in value based on their performances.

We have no money to "spunk". So I fail to see your point. He fell apart at the end and I don'twant him back. His overall transfer record is still in huge amounts of credit

Hi Stegosaurus here,


So basically, Wilder is the footballing equivalent of a scrubber from the council estate who wins the lottery and then blows it all on absolute crap and is back working the bins in five years wondering where it all went wrong.

 

[Working Class Hero]

Hecky spent far more in his first Premier League transfer window than Wilder did, and I'm yet to be convinced that we've had a better return. Even if we have, Hecky isn't getting what Wilder did out of them. He had his signings in a European spot before Covid!

I completely understand those not wanting a Wilder return, or Hecky to be sacked, but some of the comparisons are just ridiculous and based on bitterness. Hecky has a very long way to go before he gets anywhere near Wilder.

 

[Sheffsteel]

They were the signings of a man who believed his own hype. I loved Wilder (and wouldn't be against him returning in all honesty), but they were ridiculous signings.

At the time they weren’t ridiculous at all, however of course, in retrospect they ended up being stupid
but that’s the calculated risk you take, some work, some don’t.

Most managers have tried this type of signing.
Buy players who have massive potentially/ talent but are totally out of favour going no where or have recently failed.

These types of players are usually low cost Idue to high chance of failure) but high reward.
They generally don’t cost much, you already know in advance there’s a 90% chance of failure
but if the players turns their career around, you’ve bought a top player on the cheap.

The key is the manager and fans should have a low expectation, so we ensure the rest of our squad is up to standard.
These signings are similar to buying a £1 lottery ticket at the newsagent and there’s millions that have done this.

 

[Swannyblade]

Send Wilder round Aldi with a tenner and he’ll pick up the ingredients for a tasty and filling meal - bit of pasta, passata, fresh basil, onions, meatballs, garlic bread and a cheap merlot. Nowt too fancy, but tasty and hits the spot.
Send him round Waitrose with £200 and he’d come back with truffle oil, beetroot and mint houmous, strawberry and champagne preserve, dried octopus, spiced quince and pear relish and some 99% Dominican Republic dark chocolate…you’re left skint and starving.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

I keep reading on here about how Wilder spunked our money away. I’ve always thought overall we did good with transfers with him but thought best take a look back. Fees using transfer market.com

Pre Premiership (recap)
Sold Dcl
Sold Brooks

Bought Egan
Bought Norwood.
Few good Free’s

Overall: Fantastic 11/10 League one to Premiership. Whilst making a profit.

First season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note.

Bought: Berge for 20m
Bought: Mcburnie 17m
Bought: Mousett 10m
Bought: Robinson 6m
Bought: Freeman 4m
Bought: Osborn 3m

Overall: 8/10 we finished 9th in the Premier-league playing fantastic football. Berge was touted by clubs in Europe ended up selling for a similar figure after helping us to promotion. Mcburnie currently our best player. Mousset for the one season was worth the 10m. Robinson / Freeman not very good and Osborn was okay he’s played a lot but nothing special.

Second season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note

Bought: Brewster 22m
Bought: Ramsdale 18m
Bought: Burke (Swop for Robinson)
Bought : Bogle 3m
Bought : Lowe 3m

Overall 5/10. League position horrific and Brewster since Wilder left has sat on the injury table and been crocked ever since. Ramsdale we sold for big profit and now plays for Arsenal. Burke I don’t even want to talk about awful player (no argument the Robinson money virtually went on him we spunked that. Bogle and Lowe for their money are very good. Bogle has a very exciting future. Lowe is very hot and cold but £3m in PL is nothing.

So this argument about how Wilder spunked money. Looking back with hindsight Brewster and his injuries seems very poor, but he made that money back with Ramsdale. Burke is dreadful. The others overall look good signings. Large majority of the team got us 90 points in the Championship too.

Myth: Busted.

 

[Houso]

At the time they weren’t ridiculous at all, however of course, in retrospect they ended up being stupid
but that’s the calculated risk you take, some work, some don’t.

Most managers have tried this type of signing.
Buy players who have massive potentially/ talent but are totally out of favour going no where or have recently failed.

These types of players are usually low cost Idue to high chance of failure) but high reward.
They generally don’t cost much, you already know in advance there’s a 90% chance of failure
but if the players turns their career around, you’ve bought a top player on the cheap.

The key is the manager and fans should have a low expectation, so we ensure the rest of our squad is up to standard.
These signings are similar to buying a £1 lottery ticket at the newsagent and there’s millions that have done this.

He signed Burke, Morrison and Rodwell. All damaged goods, all projects that Chris had the self belief that he could turn round. It's a pattern and indicative of a man who arrogantly believed he could turn their careers round where others had failed time and time again.

 

[Balham Blade]

The issue in that second season is more fundamental than the debate about whether Wilder wasted money in the transfer window.

We knew JOC had a serious knee injury. We also knew that teams had figured out that Norwood was the key: put him under pressure and we struggled. Those were the two critical things to fix.

Wilder went mad and bought an unproven striker, a young goalkeeper and a pair of full backs when he should have put that £40m into a decent central defender and athletic central midfielder. We paid the price by chalking up the worst ever start to a PL season and threatening the lowest ever points total as we were embarrassed week after week.

The man started believing the hype. He's still chasing that high even though it's increasingly obvious that his time has past.

 

[Swannyblade]

Wilder went mad and bought an unproven striker, a young goalkeeper and a pair of full backs when he should have put that £40m into a decent central defender and athletic central midfielder. We paid the price by chalking up the worst ever start to a PL season and threatening the lowest ever points total as we were embarrassed week after week.

100% this! We were crying out for a JOC replacement/back up and some steel in midfield. Goalkeeper and Striker could have been quality loans. A complete waste of the available resources.

 

[RossingtonBlade]

I’m sorry to say but the recruitment over the past 4 years has been very disappointing to say the least.

Shit loads of transfer fees & wages spunked away under Wilder, Slav & Hecky.

Who can we say have been a solid purchase since we went up to the Premier League? Probably Foderingham, McBurnie, J Robinson permanently ironically werent good enough for the league we brought them in to play in the first place.
Gibbs White & McAtee great loan signings and Anel Ahmedhodzic the only permanent signing we made in 2 years. Shocking

The lack of squad planning/management has been nothing short of a fucking disgrace. We are relying heavily on players from the Wilder era who are sadly way past their sell by date as they are just not good enough anymore - Egan, Basham, Norwood.

The whole style of play our game was based around was shot to bits when JOC got his career ending injury and we’ve had to paper over the cracks these past 4 years having loan recruits and a loose cannon in Robbo to cover it, I mean what did we really expect?

The past summers recruits have been nothing short of a shambles. 5m on Trusty who can’t dislodge any of the 3 idiots at the back at the moment, I mean how bad is he? Tom Davies is wank, id rather Warwick. Benie Traore is John Forte 2.0

Next summer literally every fucker is out of contract, the players who we will still have contracted will need to be either sold to balance the books in Anel if he does wake up and put in a half decent performance. Are too old with no re sale value. Or a youth player who is fucking shit. There is going to be a big squad overhaul next summer and it’s been needed for some time.

Sheffield United, the most sentimental football club going.

 

[1987]

You should have been a politician. Designing your answers and then asking the questions.

Hecky has improved McBurnie. Hecky had the nerve to play Iliman.

Think that may trump anything Wilder did.

That alone trumps what Wilder did for us?

Seems a ridiculous comment to me.

I'll imagine you mean solely transfers, but then our best defender this year was bought by him cheap, McB was signed by him. Players that got us promoted, inc Berge et al.

He had an issue playing youth when we got to the prem deffo, but there's not much to say he wouldn't have played illi when we got relegated. He played Brooks.

 

[LiviBlade]

Conveniently left out:

Verrips
Retsos
Rodwell
Jagielka
Besic
Morrison
Zivkovic
Ampadu


At the time we could not compete with other clubs on wages for players and our targets went to competing clubs like Villa and Fulham who've kicked on and most of the players we did sign we've lost money on and they did not contribute over the long term.

Wilder is not the answer.

 

[Champagneblade]

The issue in that second season is more fundamental than the debate about whether Wilder wasted money in the transfer window.

We knew JOC had a serious knee injury. We also knew that teams had figured out that Norwood was the key: put him under pressure and we struggled. Those were the two critical things to fix.

Wilder went mad and bought an unproven striker, a young goalkeeper and a pair of full backs when he should have put that £40m into a decent central defender and athletic central midfielder. We paid the price by chalking up the worst ever start to a PL season and threatening the lowest ever points total as we were embarrassed week after week.

The man started believing the hype. He's still chasing that high even though it's increasingly obvious that his time has past.

Glad it wasn't just me who has thought this. You might disagree on individual players but usually you can agree on the positions you need filling.

For me it was - player to replace O'Connell or give him time who could also potentially help out Egan. Additional midfielder given what you said about Norwood and also what was going on with Lundstram.

I would have been ok to loan another keeper and do the same with a striker or even stick with what we had.

How we decided 42m on a keeper and na unproven striker was the way to go was quite beyond me.

 

[bornablade]

That alone trumps what Wilder did for us?

Seems a ridiculous comment to me.

I'll imagine you mean solely transfers, but then our best defender this year was bought by him cheap, McB was signed by him. Players that got us promoted, inc Berge et al.

He had an issue playing youth when we got to the prem deffo, but there's not much to say he wouldn't have played illi when we got relegated. He played Brooks.

The OP was about 'Spunking Money..'

So yes the point I made was about transfers.

McBurnie was signed by Wilder but I maintain Hecky has made him a better player.

Hecky understands that development of young players is neccessary due to the club's financial predicament.

I think Wilder had had enough of shopping at Aldi at previous clubs and thought he'd won the lottery when we got promoted to the Premier league.

The toys might have come out of the pram a lot earlier if Wilder had been told he'd only got £20 million to spend in 2019.

 

[Gimli]

Really depends if your own personal perspective is such that Oli Mc is currently our best player I spose !

80% bobbar .

UTB

I know this is difficult for you to come to terms with.

It will get easier, as you move towards acceptance.

X

 

[Torrix1889]

I keep reading on here about how Wilder spunked our money away. I’ve always thought overall we did good with transfers with him but thought best take a look back. Fees using transfer market.com

Pre Premiership (recap)
Sold Dcl
Sold Brooks

Bought Egan
Bought Norwood.
Few good Free’s

Overall: Fantastic 11/10 League one to Premiership. Whilst making a profit.

First season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note.

Bought: Berge for 20m
Bought: Mcburnie 17m
Bought: Mousett 10m
Bought: Robinson 6m
Bought: Freeman 4m
Bought: Osborn 3m

Overall: 8/10 we finished 9th in the Premier-league playing fantastic football. Berge was touted by clubs in Europe ended up selling for a similar figure after helping us to promotion. Mcburnie currently our best player. Mousset for the one season was worth the 10m. Robinson / Freeman not very good and Osborn was okay he’s played a lot but nothing special.

Second season in Premiership:

Sold no one of note

Bought: Brewster 22m
Bought: Ramsdale 18m
Bought: Burke (Swop for Robinson)
Bought : Bogle 3m
Bought : Lowe 3m

Overall 5/10. League position horrific and Brewster since Wilder left has sat on the injury table and been crocked ever since. Ramsdale we sold for big profit and now plays for Arsenal. Burke I don’t even want to talk about awful player (no argument the Robinson money virtually went on him we spunked that. Bogle and Lowe for their money are very good. Bogle has a very exciting future. Lowe is very hot and cold but £3m in PL is nothing.

So this argument about how Wilder spunked money. Looking back with hindsight Brewster and his injuries seems very poor, but he made that money back with Ramsdale. Burke is dreadful. The others overall look good signings. Large majority of the team got us 90 points in the Championship too.

Myth: Busted.

You were on spice when you wrote that weren't you?