Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
It becomes nonsensical if we were always going to get all of those experienced and able Championship performers for nothing whether Covid happened or not. I think there was absolutely no chance of that happening. There is no way that we would have been able to perform a rebuilding job of the scale we have done this summer on the budget we had and ended up with a squad which could compete at this level were it not for the higher number of players good enough to play at Championship level available in the free transfer market because of the losses clubs made during lockdowns and periods when the grounds were closed.
But if the clubs releasing the players had not made those covid-caused losses it could be fair to assume we wouldn't have either and so would have been in a better position to buy players anyway because the budget we would have would have been different from the budget we actually had.(Allegedly)
As things stand it would seem that every cloud has a silver lining!