Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
I agree with this. Maynard was injured, Velikonja was signed by Tan (I believe, Malky didn't want him or play him).

Malky spent relatively little when he first took over. After the unexpected success of his first season the club demanded promotion within a year and backed their manager.

Given some of the amounts spent by Championship teams, the amounts spent were hardly extravagant.
If you exclude Maynard who had bad luck with injures, and EV who it is debated who signed him, he bought Mutch for 2m (sold for 6m and arguably our best player in PL), Kim for 2m, Fraizer for 650k, Noone (1m) and Connolly (500k), the latter two are still here. Tommy Smith and Helguson came in for peanuts as well. He hardly broke the bank, we spent 10m. Villa have spent 12m or more on a single striker three times this season alone.