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you'll get no disagreement from me.
just hoping that teams that were on a sensible path, swansea, palace, southampton, west brom, and then fired managers and got into the overpaying for underperforming players and then getting pulled into the relegation mire and then repeating the cycle, find a more organised way of being which doesn't involve them pissing away the riches they've found themselves swimming in...
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If you just buy assets badly, deliver poor output nobody will want to buy those assets.
Pickford got £30m for them because he was all that stopped them being relegated in Feb.
They paid £25m for Didier N'Dong and Djobodji last summer along with £12m on Oviedo, Gibson and McNair.
Khazri, Lens, Borini and Alvarez bought for £40m the season before - Lens played half a season, Alvarez 5 games and the other two played most games but bought at top of market value.
13/14 - Altidore, Scocco, Bridcutt, Mavrias and Giaccherini signed for combind £25m and were all unmitigated flops
That's £100m of utter shit which they may have recouped £15-20m on.
If you keep churning through managers, who are only worried about surviving the drop this is the mess you get in.