While I've given a like to your post, because I agree, after reflection, as I've posted elsewhere, there's something that rankles with me now about Alex. We may have short changed him. Who knows. I wouldn't doubt it. But on the eve of a game he's done one. He seemed forthright, straightforward, a man of integrity. Nevermind the fans, or the club, but on the eve of a game he's dropped the people he works with day in, day out, who he's been getting to buy into him. He's dropped them in it a day before a game. Whatever the rights and wrongs if his situation, that's a lack of integrity. A lack of quality as an individual.Look the choice is not only between
A - pay journeymen mega millions over what they are worth and run up colossal debts while plummeting through the leagues
Or
B - run everything on a shoe string with key players and managers on short contracts, ticket office and shop closed, buying 18 year old wingers from Costa Rica when we need experienced defensive cover
We could have avoided losing AN by simply renegotiating his contract after promotion