Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
I’d go so far as to say we have largely wasted a fortune, as opposed to spent a fortune. Wasted on some very poor players, various agents and of course Joorabchian, and paying off the merry go round of failed managerial appointments.
Where we are now are is all the chickens coming home to roost as a result of poor recruitment by different failed regimes with different playing styles. All that is going to take some amount of sorting out!
Weve basically spent £50mil a season in an attempt to catch those whose squad values dwarf ours.
The problems have been that
1: The recruitment policy has been altered under different types of manager.
2: Weve signed players with the wrong mentality and poor quality.
3: Weve signed stopgaps
4: Weve extended contracts of poor players
Now, finally I have confidence in Lampard and Thelwell to put things right over a 3 year period.