SwimWithTheTide":8e7vpj6i said:
Injuries cost us last season, so let's re-sign those injury prone players and a load of released player's that spent last season out injured to supplement the squad... Poverty budget?
Why are we a basket case club still? Sustainable... F off.
As I alluded to in the OP, there is just no way any of our signings (with the possible exception of Moore and Smith-Brown?) were wanted by any other League 1 club.
They were either injured or didn’t play for all or large parts of last season (Dyson, Canavan, C Grant, Riley). Or just had a terrible time of it in this league (Wootton, Ladapo).
None of those players would have any leverage for a high wage, which points to a restricted budget. But then the resigning players who DO have leverage based on their L2 and L1 exploits would have taken up a fair chunk of the wage bill.
It seems to me that DA has taken the not unsensible move of 1) concentrating on keeping the core of last season’s players, 2) spending decent money on addressing the attacking full back areas, and 3) bulking out the squad with back-ups.
However, he seems to have misjudged points 1) and 3), especially the apparent decision not to stretch to keep Bradley.