All I know was that Murphy was a better player in the first half of his first season with us than he was after that. He was in the Premier Lwague when he played his best football for us , yet was a Championship player for the majority of his time here and I struggle to think of a spell where he was more effective in the lower league than he was in the top one. Murphy wasn’t blameless for the way his career panned out at City, but both he and a player who has spent virtually all of the time since he left us in the top flight (Decordova-Reid) were bit part players during the closing stages of 18/19 and that has to be seen as an indictment of the manager who paid such large fees for them less than a year earlier.