Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff View Post
You are right of course.

But at that time Smithies hadn’t really established himself as such a good keeper here had he? I don’t think anyway.

So the stars weren’t perfectly aligned. Still, a nice ‘problem’ to have I suppose. 👍
We paid £4m for Smithies and made him the highest paid (non-loan) player at the club. It was a bit of an odd thing to do if we didn't think that he is a good keeper.