Royal Lady No - the manager was told he had to sell before he could buy. If he didn't want some of those players, he's an even worse Manager than I currently consider him to be.
Madejski has stripped the club of its assets ready to sell on to someone else, but this will backfire now, because no-one will want the club in its present position, the fans have no faith in the management, JM will be stuck with a lowly club, fewer supporters, less money coming in and he'll have undone in one season all the good things he'd done previously.
I really don't think JM cares much anymore, his heart isn't in it, in the same way as Coppell knew he was leaving and stayed on for a season longer than he wanted to, JM is having to stay here but doesn't want to. It's all very well being prudent - but there's prudence and there's being a complete tight @rse - and I can't help thinking how different things would have been if, in our second season in the Prem, he'd speculated to accumulate and spent a couple of million or so and we would have stayed up and everything would have looked much rosier financially and footballing wise.
As I've said before, however, Rodgers knew what he was getting in to, he knew he had to "cut the cloth" so there was no cloth left - if he wasn't happy about that he should have said so and not taken the job. With the money he has been allowed, he's wasted it - he is tactically inept and certainly, to my mind, is and was not the man for the job. But who to have attracted instead of him? I have no idea, because any manager worth his salt would not have come into a club that was so willing to strip its assets bare. So you get what you pay for in terms of management and team - and we must now get used to the fact that unless someone comes in for us who has so much money they don't know what to do with it, we're going to be stuck like this for some time.
No manager wants to play another guys team he wants his own players in to impose his own ideas.This is his team his players. He knows the young players from when they were 11-12 years old, no doubt at Chelsea he still followed their progress he knows their strengths and their weaknesses. He was given money for his own players he was complicit in missing out on his top target (along with others) through his big mouth but apart from that he has got the players he wanted.
