2024/25 Kevin Thelwell

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That's all part of his job though, keep seeing all this guff about how he wanted this player and that player but couldn't strike a deal because we didn't have the money. He must have known his bloody budget so why was he looking at players he knew he couldn't afford? Its all fine and well saying we wanted the likes of Kudos, Diaz and co (makes him look better at the job than he is) but the reality has been very different, his job is to know the markets and make sure his budget fits it not play fantasy football trying too get "names" we can't/won't ever be able to afford.

I don’t think that really applies in this instance. Of course if you’re Ipswich and you’re trying to sign the same players as Real Madrid then it’s easy to laugh off in the way in you’re going, but we have been run chaotically and it’s very easy to believe that the DoF would have been under the impression that we had the budget for certain players only to find when push came to shove that we didn’t. He isn’t the treasurer, he’s going to be working on the information he’s been given and - unless you’re the type who makes their mind up on a manager/DoF and sticks to it regardless… - you’d have to admit it’s highly likely our board haven’t been entirely transparent about what we can do.