Budget? by davman 15 Feb 8:32
So in the WLS piece from the manager after yesterday's sh1tshow, as well as the injuries, he also says that we have the second lowest budget in the league.
If that is the case how have we managed to spend so much on Kone, Poku, Burrell, Saito and most of all, Edwards?

If we really have the lowest budget, have spunked the Eze money on that lot, who haven't moved the performance dial and have not (with the possible exception of Burrell) increased in value, we are sooooo fckd long term again.

Let's talk Edwards, because someone has to say it. £4.5m in a position where it appears temporarily at least that we have JCS, Cook, Dunne and Edwards to slot in to two positions because there is no way our illustrious manager would contemplate going to a back 3. Until yesterday, Cook and Dunne were undroppable, neaning that there was no place in our starting xi for our £4.5m signing.

Imbalanced does not even start to describe it.

Then there is our recruitment strategy. Buy young and cheap, sell on is the model and that is the right one, but if you buy crocks, they will devalue rather than increase in value. And throwing in Development kids that have not been prepared by a L1 / L2 season or half season long loan will give you Bennie, Kolli, Morgan, Esquerdinha, etc. - like Sinclair Armstrong before them, mismanaged development because our squad needs them from the bench because we have no-one else.

I am psd off after yesterday and because I got heckled by a Chel** / Bromley fan this week and I can see Bromley, my local Pyramid Level 7/8 growing up overtaking us soon and I am utterly flabbergasted how poor we are as a club right now.