HoundSnowflake Royaltmesis I've seen plenty of "you weren't complaining about all your overspending when you were in the premier league" comments on twitter. I think a lot of other clubs' fans really have no idea what's happened.
I was.
To be fair, loads were. I don't think many people thought Pog was worth a deal for £60k a week.
Well no but sadly can’t blame Yongge for that one…
With this regime I think a few eyebrows were raised at the Illori deal but certainly the Aluko one was the raising of alarm bells, even if obvs didn’t think it would get to this point then
I can't remember if Ilori was under Dai or just before, but it was rumoured to be around £3.75m.
A lot of the time the maximum transfer fee gets reported, as opposed to the initial transfer fee; Ilori may only have cost £2.5m (for example), with the remainder only paid if we got promoted. Apparently we sold him for €2.4m, so at the very worst we made around a £1.5m loss on him. Nowhere near our worst piece of business in recent years.