Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Wales Online also carries a piece about the appointment of David Hughes and the club's plans for the Academy.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...iting-19252700

Based on what I've been told there are some factual errors in the story, so maybe I shouldn't trust it, but the figure of £100 million spent while Warnock was manager is certainly not miles out and, correctly, gives the impression that he could have few complaints about the level of support he was given by the Board. In the summer of 2017, our parachute payments had stopped and attendances had been falling, so money was bound to be fairly tight. However, he was given around £2 million to spend on Lee Tomlin that summer and given his reluctance to play Tomlin over the next two and a bit years as he failed to get the player to hit the heights he did under Neil Harris last season, it seems to me he should have used that money to sign Watkins if he was that sure about him.
We did receive a parachute payment in the summer of 2017. They used to be spread over 4 years.