No one in this entire thread has any evidence, I believe it's opinions that are being stated..

Edited by Dman Palace (11 Jun 2019 2.50pm)

Most overrated manager in our history. Some great results, which Hodgson has equalled or bettered. Some absolutely shocking results and performances. Don't want him anywhere near the club.

I don't read the transfer speculation in the media but unfortunately I have to read the posts on here, even the defamatory garbage

I would say the budget on incoming players has been miniscule since Allardyce left simply because he spent more than we could afford to get out of trouble and up the table. The club have had to cut cloth accordingly ever since.
Saying that, if we could just get our wage bill under more control we could probably now push on with a quality signing or two. The last few meagre windows must surely mean now that the books are balanced.

The three players that Sam bought still form part of our team with one of them being the captain and highest scorer last season.

In contrast the players bought or loaned under Roy's watch have included many of poor quality which have been a waste of money.

We must have wasted £12m or £13m on Sorloth and Jach neither of whom are good enough to play for us

The books are certainly not balanced and without selling anyone you’re looking at not much more spent than we did on kouyate.

If you look at the sam signings, first of all they had to cost because it was January and our obvious needs to anyone with 2 working eyes watching us ship 5 goals in games. They also included 2 proven Prem left backs. If we bl00dy had a proper backup to Souare then we may not have needed both in January, but then again Pardew might’ve survived and caused more long term damage. We blatantly needed a CB and because our scouting is p1ss poor we loaned in Sakho and then Parish bought him when FDB was stealing a living. Luka, as midlands says, ended up being our captain and I even heard Freedman had said that def mid was our weakest link after a live game loss, whereas we were obsessing about no left back.

Parish knew we were in trouble. The document sam wrote that he and the US 2 saw was obviously taken rightly seriously.

Roy did a tremendous job because I thought we’d run out of time. But it should also be pointed out that he didn’t have fewer players than sam had. Roy had RLC, but he had no striker after Benteke got injured at Man City. That in itself was verging on miraculous to deal with. With cabaye and RLC we grew into an immense force. Sadly now we’re a bit timid until teams wind down for their summer holidays.

COYP