2024/25 Kevin Thelwell

[Tony’s Carp]

The way I see it, he's had to make a profit in every window, sell before buying.

The buying has often been from a shortlist of being available for £0.

Other than Leicester, we've spent (not even net, just actual spend) the lowest in the league since he arrived. Leeds have been in the championship 2 years and have spent more in the last 3 years than us.

People bang on about Beto, but forget we only had Calvert-Lewin and started a season without scoring a goal in 3 games and the window was 2 days from closing and we had literally, £0 upfront.

Gyokeres, Kudus, Minteh, Elanga, Gnonto - all we've wanted but had £0 to spend upfront or had to have other players leave as part of a deal.

I've no idea whether Thelwell is any good. Can only judge him on what he's done here, and there's a massive asterisk against that given he joined a club that was a circus.

When you look at the routine spending of most other clubs it’s a big ask to maintain a PL level squad at break even. And the job we’ve asked of him hasn’t even been that. Just about every penny in sales has been whipped away from him to keep the lights on.

Sell to buy would be tough but manageable, sell to keep the club from administration oh and keep us in the PL too please nigh on impossible. The angry brigade don’t want to hear “excuses” but it’s been the defining feature of his time here.