Maestro what a complete and utter buffoon you are. You matey are yet another who misrepresents what I say (how many times have you heard me say that ?).
The point that you miss is that we could not sign every one of the players I recommended but we could have and should have signed the ones I was most vociferous about:
Boyd £200K
Ebanks-Blake £250K
Adam £500K
Buzsaky £500K
Instead over the same time period we went for:
Hart £100k
Collins £700k Wages £10K per week!
Shumulikoski £200K Wages £8K per week!
Brown £400K Wages £8K per week
Parkin £500K Wages £10K per week!
Elliott £200K + Hill Wages £10K per week!! This one is staggering.
Chaplow £1.2 million Wages £10K per week
Carter £750K Wages £10K per week
What have you to say about that BSK ? For the first time, the players roll of dishonuor named and shamed and it was mainly the creation of your incompetent Irvine.Now you can all see where we've been losing such huge amounts of money.
These mercenaries and their vermin agents should be chased out of Preston. They take, take, take and given nothing in return.
Shaw is responsible for the wage structure not Irvine. In terms of transfer fees, £100k for Hart, £500k for the Beast, £400k for Brown, £200k for Shumi all seem fine to me, very good value in some cases (primarily Parkin). Carter and Chaplow weren't Irvine signings so not sure why they're relevant here to you apparently showcasing Irvine's incompetence.
😕 I've said before Collins and Elliott were poor signings although I did think in his first few appearances Elliott had potential, sadly not fulfilled at Deepdale. Name me a manager who has a 100% success rate in the transfer market though?
The squad Ferguson inherited is a lot better than he has given them credit for, with a proper manager capable of organising them into a proper unit, coupled with some of the signings Ferguson made thanks to his contacts, we should have pushed on to the top half of the table. We still have room for improvement of course but if Ferguson had added more pace to the side and another quality striker from the United youth team / reserves then there was a real chance of progress next season.
Sadly, Ferguson has absolved himself of any responsibility, blamed the players and a poor fitness regime (funny how all the players used to comment on how gruelling pre-season was under Irvine eh?
🙄) and decided to save his own skin he'll have a comprehensive clear-out and start from scratch. Shame on you Ferguson.
😡 At least at the end of this pointless and disruptive process, there'll be nowhere left to hide, no more excuses, merely confirmation of what an incompetent, clueless, pitiful excuse for a Championship manager Ferguson is.