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Old 10th December 2018, 18.01:51   #161-0 (permalink)
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Default Re: Big Den rejects offer!

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Originally Posted by Phils-an-alki View Post
His budget was dramatically cut. So the reality was that most would have struggled to maintain that quality of squad. Plus there was players on good money there at the time.
Not sure why this is continually ignored and people still say "he struggled in the transfer market" as if he had a FGR budget. Doesn't take a Sherlock to work it out. You don't all believe he really wanted the likes of N'Tame, surely?

Anyway.
I agree with this and he was always on a hiding to nothing after reaching the play offs 3 years on the spin anything short of that was seen as failure. He wasn't given long enough to build his own team so we will never know about his recruitment. We lost the Beast to injury, Fowler, NKP, Obeng, Wright all moved for more money, Speight moved for personal reasons and Ashton, Keates and Harris went into decline so any manager with a reduced budget would have struggled.