As if an indication of the consistency of our approach you could listen to their one last summer back-to-back with this one now and they almost run into each other seamlessly. The principals remain the same – thinking short, medium and long term, having a clear check on the wages and fees we’re prepared to pay, the desire to build a legacy with the Prem cash etc. I’m guessing re: the fees, the Ipswich centre-back is the one that we walked away from because of the rapid increase in numbers talked about.
These have been really good, open, reassuring interviews with the pair of them. By all accounts we’ve used some of the cash in January that we’d earmarked in the summer in order to jump ahead of other clubs interested in Berge. But then depending on where we finish there might be more cash that comes in.