It was a financial reality ever since we missed out on the play offs. Chris could have pushed cashing in a year ago on the likes of Gus but like every manager they are greedy until they have no choice.
We lay money on the following each week, please tell me the grand total of this lot couldn’t have been deployed on fewer resources of higher quality:
Jamie Shackleton - small, injury prone
Matt Doherty - old, unfit
Hamza Choudhury - ok CM but not a RB
Jairo Riedewald - fallen off a cliff
Joe Rothwell - Rangers fans said he was crap
Therese Campbell - within a month of new deal, not making squad
Jordan Ayew - old, unfit
Tom Cannon - enigmatic but if we needed 5m+, O’Hare was more pivotal than him
So by all means acknowledge that Gus and Cal were positive contributors to the team but let’s not pretend the manager has not been allowed to deal and let’s not pretend that money has been well allocated.