ZipSnowflake Royal Yeah, heard it all before. But the point remains we had options to spend less / save more and we didn't take them, which as a direct consequence has led to this position. And our flagrant disregard for our financial position by signing Puscas and Joao for example, almost certainly leads to a less lenient and cooperative position from the FL.
All since Gourlay, who was working for and with the owners. He's just being made an easy excuse for all the oxf*rd by them and the club.
Yep very much this and even more so when it was clear our financial position was a concern to the EFL in 2019 so I know lets smash our transfer record and lash out £12 million on two strikers and God knows how much more on wages and loan signings.
Any business is about investing though, it’s just how you do it and whether your investments were good and VfM. If you don’t invest you’ll stagnate and go backwards (in our case down). Even if you are in the shit you need to invest. We’d only been saved the season before by managing to get on loan signings of ridiculous quality - esp Martinez and Baker. Huge hole when they left. Joao and Ejaria worth every penny and more, Puscas debatable but not a disaster
The Gourlay era investments (granted the Moore contract was not him) were an absolute travesty in retrospect and are the main reason we’ve been on our knees for the last 3-4 years
Anyway guess we’ll never agree so will try not to bore on any more
