Quote Originally Posted by surge View Post
I tried to give some thought to i) how much money each fee was at time of spending, ii) percentage of total budget at the time, iii) how much they performed for it. Manga is very lucky to come out in positive column based on being capable at premier league level but without that season it's another bad transfer.

Decordova Reid is another one where I'd love to read internal comms to see what club were thinking. Almost like Warnock wanted an extra dimension and ended up picking one he didn't fully understand - if he did understand then surely could see why it was such a bad fit whereas Camarrassa wasn't - and eventually didn't want to use.

I think we have spent money over past decade (mostly poorly) and have shopped abroad much more than in decades before that (also mostly poorly) so maybe we need to give some credit for putting an end to mistakes. Process needs to improve before we go big again.
I think that's fair and well put. I can get on board with that. The only caveat for me is the definition of 'go big'. <£1M? or >£3M? I don't know what kind of budget we've got or how much we can even spend anymore. We seem like a club licking our wounds right now and I'm afraid that's going to hold us back.