Thoroughly explains why we are a yoyo club though. Glad that was cleared up.

I seem to recall that there were a number of people on this forum who wanted Solskjaer to take over here prior to Pulis being appointed

Don't forget Ellis Short at Sunderland...

Good things come to those who wait. And yet it seems they also come to those who flail around wildly looking for the nearest handhold, regularly hurl the last six months of forward planning out of the window, and generally don't seem to be able to sit down for any period of time without jabbing themselves in the foot with the nearest sharp implement. For Sunderland, progress to Sunday's Capital One Cup final has involved not so much a cup run as a compelling kind of cup stampede, fraught with hierarchal change, a fast-paced turnover in playing staff and the continual clank-clank of gear-shift and about-turn.

Not that there is anything new in any of this. It is now four years since Ellis Short bought the club from the Drumaville Consortium, during which time Short's bafflingly incontinent administration has signed 42 players and sold 53, including 14 new signings from 10 different leagues in the past year alone. Four permanent managers have come and gone, along with three temporary ones, a disgruntled-looking Roy Keane, one fascism-related scandal, an improbable ginger-bearded director of football, and at least £200m of Short's own money in transfers and wages. From a distance the American private equity tycoon with a personal fortune of $3bn seems the most unlikely of accidental cup finalists, a man who has effectively blundered his way to Wembley in the past six months.

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FA Cup MOTD 24/4/16

Er yes that was my point (all be it in a bit of a whaffly way) that Whilse many here were moaning that we had overspent on an unproven striker at prem level Cardiff did the same but the amounts are vastly different 4.5 to 20 mill. Moody may well have been responsible for that overspend but its interesting that he would chose to come to a club infamous in transfer windows for its care and prudence in trying to get value for money. Personally suggests to me Moody and Malcky are not as carefree with Cardiff's finances and Tan would have us believe.