Quote Originally Posted by blue lewj View Post
I agree a lot of the deals under Warnock and the transfer committee are a large part to blame for how tight things are. The Bacuna deal jumps out as one that springs to mind.

One tell tale sign of us paying too much is we can't seem to move players on, sometimes for free. Almost no players go from here and get better money elsewhere.
It seems getting the player in seems the aim rather than thinking ahead and we get our pants pulled down into the bargain.
There does seem to have been a bit more forward thought under Harris.
We had 2 goalkepers on big wages, which was a waste of salary as obviously we can only play one, so we moved one on and brought in a very capable understudy who will probably take over from Smithies at the end of his contract.

We're losing both LBs in the summer, so we've started bringing through a youngster in that position, meaning we will only need one (or one to re-sign).

We've realised that Flint and Morrisson can't play together, so Flint as been moved on (temporarily) ,and signed Nelson on for another season.

I think if Warnock had still been here he would probably have offered Hoilett and Bamba another year by now as well.

So in one curtailed transfer window we've managed to sort out the Centre forward position and goal keeper position for a few seasons. Made a start at sorting out cenre back as well.
This january/summer we'll have to address fullbacks, wings and probably centre backs again (for cover), then if there's time/money available we can look at the central midfield.