Quote Originally Posted by dml1954 View Post
Yeah right, he really screwed us over - got a relegation threatened championship team into the Premier League within 18 months by spending around £10m and brought in about £120m of extra revenue in the process. Honest to god I really do despair with the attitude of some people on here. Boro fans should be rubbing their hands in glee.if they have any sense.
he did fantastically to get us promoted, and that's about it really.
since relegation we've had an unfair advantage over many other teams in this league in terms of parachute payments. we have completely squandered it on inflated wages and fees for average players. we should have been left amongst the strongest teams in the league, but I don't think anyone would say that now.
he left us with an ageing, completely unbalanced squad, and some players who weren't performing with years to run on huge wages and little chance to move them on. Several transfer windows later we are still trying to clean up the mess.

Brentford's plan for promotion assumes that they may get relegated twice over the next 5 years but they will take the opportunity to invest and to come back stronger. we've been relegated twice and now are weaker than in years.
we didn't bring ANY youth players through under his watch, now under different managers they get some game time and surprise surprise they are good enough.
he gave a 34 year old Sol Bamba another year contract when he was in the middle of recovering from a cruciate ligament injury.

he definitely has some real strengths, but unchecked he did a lot of damage to the club as well as the good stuff