It’s absolutely hard to swallow. The SBC loan is something in particular I can’t defend. I think he was badly advised and didn’t know enough about the sport. Quinn leaving fucked his reign really as we never really had someone who knew the sport and short flitted around from appointment to appointment trying to fix it. Each time he kept making it worse.
The championship season is a strange one. At the end of the day short doesn’t pick the players. The people who did sold man one and brought three others in. We had a squad at the start with mannone, Jones, kone, O’Shea, Oviedo, cattermole, ndong etc - mostly players who’d played at a higher level. No one thought we’d go down and a layman like him probably assumed that was enough to be competitive. He underestimated for sure but as recompense he gave the next owners a free slate. That relegation cost him £150m plus. Do you think that if he knew what would happen he wouldn’t have spent extra on another player rather than having to lose that amount of money.
It’s ineptitude certainly but not malice and he paid the price for it.
