The issue is how you divide the pot?
If by letting Smithies walk away and replaced by Phillips, this allows you to bring in 2-3 players then it's got to be an option that's considered.

Smithies is a good keeper, but somewhere you have to draw the line and ask are you getting the best value for money?

I've always thought we need a DOF, someone who could oversee how the club played from academy level to the first team, and whose main role was to see that the type of player recruited would fit into our style of play

That would have stopped us wasting money, time and energy on some of the real duds weve been saddled with over the last couple of years