12-07-2020, 07:31 PM
(12-07-2020, 06:54 PM)Big Daddy Cool Wrote:(12-07-2020, 05:07 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote:(12-07-2020, 04:35 PM)Big Daddy Cool Wrote:(12-07-2020, 12:26 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Let’s not get too carried away with our system. We stayed up because of Hodgson, he only became available due to his untimely sacking and he only came to us because it kept him on the FA’s radar for the England job. That wasn’t a succession plan.
Mowbray, RDM, Hodgson, Clarke
Not a bad list of managers really. Two got us promoted, one helped establish us and the other achieved our highest placed finish in the Premier League.
Hodgson wasn’t part of some super computer system. He got sacked from Liverpool, needed a job to secure his reputation for the England team and the rest is history.
Yes, but we also had a great goalscorer in Odemwingie that we picked up for a couple of million from Russia, a very good defender in Olsson for around 500k from Holland and Mulumbu for around 200k from France that were key to helping us stay up too.
You look back at our signings from that era and we didn’t half pick up some bargains. We rarely spent big money but we found gems.
Morrison - £1.5m
Brunt - £3m
McAuley, Scharner, Jerome Thomas, Steven Reid, Gera (second time) - all free
Wingie - £1.5m
Olsson - £500k
Mulumbu - £250k
Dorrans - £100k
Foster - £5m (a lot by our standards but worth every penny)