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Bravo, sir.

Up to a point. It's easy to remember the Cahill, Arteta, Pienaar, Gravesen, Seamus and a few other bargains and loans. That's a bit selective, though: in the same period, we dropped £5m on Per Kroldrup, £3.5m on Simon Davies, couple of mill on Shandy Andy, £6m on Beattie, £8.5m on Bily etc...

I don't see how this works, Dave. I think you're right about the figure - I don't think the club can afford any more. But if we're only spending another £50m on 6 players, how will any of them be any good? Even decent loanees usually have loan fees. 4 loan fees for players we'd want is...

On how many players?

How much do you think we should spend? Genuine question.

That's true, but that's not what got us into the worst of our mess: Moshiri took the opposite approach, trying to spend like clubs with far greater budgets, buying players and appointing managers because of their glamour rather than their records or fit for the club. Spunked half a billion on...

No-one said we're a no mark club, Dave. One of only 6 ever-present Premier League clubs and more seasons in the top flight than any other club. We've had a long period of underachievement that's tarnished a proud and successful history and the way the game is now rigged for the richest clubs...

Richie was definitely one for Silva.

Even that would be a welcome change. It's taken a bit of luck over the last few seasons.

Yeah, I thought you might say that.

One of the first things they've done is tie down our biggest asset for the next few years rather than cash in for a quick profit.

The Twelve Stages of GriEFC. It's called the Kubo-Ross (Barkley) model.

Nope

Have a wild guess.

To be fair, at the time, they WERE good times. We had the best manager in history, who had persuaded a genuine world-class player to sign. Allan was very highly regarded after being a key player for Napoli. It felt like we were breaking through. Downhill very fast from there, and with hindsight...

I thought he was underrated tbf

Did it ever go away?

Made me look up a list of our transfers over the years in efcstatto. Part inspiring when you think what we paid for the key members of that 84-87 squad, even by the standards of the day (all of these in the age of £1m+ fees): Graeme Sharp £120k Big Nev £150k Adrian Heath £700k Kev Sheedy...

Also... Fee considered or regardless of fee?

With hindsight or without?