you're obsessed with deboys

I think 90% of the time he's been mentioned on here it's in your posts.
in reality we don't know what's going on inside the club and where to apportion blame/credit for any signings.
as for Simic we bought him for €2m so what £1.75m? and the club obviously thought he had potential to increase in value. if we end up getting that much from the German club from a loan fee and future transfer fee then it would hardly have been a disaster. even if we end up eating a modest loss it's worth the gamble from time to time for the time that it comes off and you make a lot of money.
I'm not saying it's been a successful move btw it's more like a side investment that hasn't delivered any return yet. he was clearly never in our plans for the first team for this season.