I've always argued that with Keane, we spent big money out of almost necessity to regain and then sustain our position in the Premier League. Not justifying all of his spending by any means, but it was inevitable, the position we found ourselves in at the time, we were always going to pay over the odds. But also in fairness to Keane, that spending did achieve the desired effect of getting us up and keeping us up, which is often overlooked. Obviously since considerable effort has went into the reigning the spending in though, with mixed success.
How do you feel about Swansea, West Brom, Southampton, Stoke and even Norwich? Never mind Newcastle.
Dear me. Absolutely clueless.
Aye it was necessary. Did you see the team we got relegated to the championship with, and the shit that Keane and Drumavile were left to work with?! The club was completely fucked man. You can't remotely compare the circumstances of any of those clubs with ours. Also, you sound like a Mag to me.
Our situation was appalling, we had three senior defenders on the books and they were Collins, nosworthy and Varga (who was injured) we needed a whole new squad virtually against the backdrop of twice being relegated with record low point totals. We had to bein in a lot of players and pay good money for them.
