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Of the £15m spent in 11/12 - £12m was spent by Sven. So net £3m spent by NP, three players were released on highly paid terms the same month in an attempt to balance the expenditure. 12/13 he sold Mills for £2m, Bamba Undisclosed (thought to be £800k), Peltier Undisclosed (thought to be £500k) Signed de Laet, James, Vardy, Knoackaert all for £1m apiece, Wood undisclosed but suggested fee is £1m, so all told a net spend of £1.7m. I.e. total is a net spend of circa £4.2m. In regards to wages NP was working to reduce them in his time there, but they had high earners they couldn't shift including the likes of Gallagher, St. Ledger, Beckford, Danns, and Wellens who were all loaned out. I'm not going to deny Leicester were not high spending, especially with regards to salaries which is still applicable. But suggesting the false context above (that NP spent the whole £15m, which he did not) diminishes what NP did to an unreasonable extent. You can ask Leicester fans how he sorted them back out in his second spell. There's a reason he's so respected there. Otherwise he'd have less respect for what he achieved similar to Parker with Fulham for example.

2014. He made a net profit of £800k that season, and the only player he signed for a fee was Riyad Mahrez.

I swear if it's Rowett...

Doesn't mean much. There shouldnt be this delay if at all deliberated and planned. Especially before playing bottom of the league is completely amateurish. Unfortunately, agreed. Being pessimistic in the hope they may pleasantly surprise me for the sake of my sanity.

Would they? Only need to look at the fiasco after LJs sacking to realise that SL and planning aren't worthy of being discussed in the same sentence unless its in regards to property development. I have zero faith the longer this bumbles along with no appointment.

Rightly so.

Don't get this comparison. Ironically think Eustaces situ at Brum reminded me very much of what NP has done here. Only have to look at what's happened since they got "the name" in, for context of the job he did. Many of those clubs have links to the continent that led to said appointments. We have one of the most Brexit ownerships models in the league by comparison. Would understand this view (puppet, easy option, merry-go-round) much more if it was Rowett or Dean Smith, but it isnt. Its a manager who did one very good job, his only job, at this level in mostly very challenging circumstances.

Best we could've hoped for. Under current ownership.

Would argue they were the best side I've seen this season with regards to general effectiveness and seemed very well drilled.

Tinns lost any remaining respect I had for him when he said he'd have no issues going on SOTC, flunked it, and served up that drivel. He's part of the band that snaked Nige in my eyes and I can't forgive him for that - they all need clearing out.

Not for me - he doesn't have a style and has done nothing of note for three years almost now. Eustace or riot.

Not many - but playing Devils advocate even in the realm of Championship expenditure, between MA and LJ, SL really fudged us. NP dug us out and was swiftly booted. The difference is now - there is some headroom. Why the two of them didn't give to Nige I honestly have no idea, aside from their own petty egos and ensuing disagreements with NP going forward.

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If he always got it 'right' he wouldn't be managing at this level.

Just pointing out that Rowetts net spend over the last 16months was £9m out the door and nothing back in.

If limited funds is £9m+ net spending out the door in the last 16 months, then sure...

Think the budget played a massive part in that. But agree to disagree. Can agree he setup teams wrong on occasion - but nowhere near to the extent of LJ.

We'll never know. With the backing he got - no. We were the lowest net-spending team outside of the parachute clubs for a reason.

In a word. Yes. Reminds me of Ipswich sacking McCarthy, except our board are trying to do it mid season with a much less experienced squad. We desperately need a good appointment, and for them to hit the ground running; with a very depleted squad.

Eustace for me. Brum were the most organised and well drilled side we've seen this season, and have gone off the rails under Wayne since. Right Age. Good Coach. Free.

You were not in the front carriages on the way back from 'diff then I assume? Fairly light-hearted discussions all things considered, but one lad argued backing SL and got roundly hammered for said opinion. Don't think you realise how much damage not backing Nige at all besides a loan after the Scott sale has damaged the average fans opinion on him. The average fan sees £23m pocketed and nothing reinvested and that's it. The second point in bold is what myself, Fevs, and others who look at the finances thought would have been the case following the 'Pillars' plan talked about under Cotts back in 2015. As Dawe stepped back and SL let MA/LJ have control and backed them to the hilt, where was the sustainability then? If he and JL stepped back from the club, remained underwriters, and appointed an experienced Chairman on a longer terms and structured plan and actually stuck to it, I'd have a hell of a lot more respect for the both of them. Namely because, as per point three in bold - his track record of appointments while holding Chairmanship (Tinnion, GJ, Millen, McInnes O'Driscoll, Holden, Pearson) is pretty tragic when you consider Cotts was a Dawe (13-18) appointment by all accounts. .... And he's just sacked NP I'm ******* done.

He did in the second half more, no question. Just too many times up to the 60th minute mark both him and TGH spent dallying on the ball at times. Pass, then no movement after.

Ironically thought the issue was in midfield. Knight and TGH both fairly poor today. Namely on the ball, not moving it quick enough. We need a Scott replacement in Jan - just some kind of creative nous. Bell and Weimann need to be dropped. Just too many lacking end product. If Cornicks chance goes across that line the perceptions changed.

I've avoided posting for a bit as taking a break for my collective sanity. I'll weigh in on this and resume said break. We've had no consistency at this club in 15 years. We've bounced from extreme to extreme, like a perpetual 300 tonne pendulum. Most of which stemmed from - despite major fiscal input - completely Inept stratagem from ownership down. For the first time in said period, we seem to have a modicum of stability, no stupid fees being spent, a manager who knows what he's doing, and club culture I can get behind with great work into the academy behind the scenes. Give him a two year extension and get on with it. What reason do we realistically have. With this squad as thin as is. To sack NP or to not offer him new deal based on the current league table, when LJ got an extension after one of the worst runs of a city manager in history? This is why we havent had stability. We finally actually have some now that NP has oversaw a two year clear out of the MA/ LJ debacle. While above him we have an incompetent owner in the mould of Championship Moshiri with regards to blowing money despite soundbites about sustainability, nepotism to the fore with his son on the board, who only backed the least qualified manager in the clubs last quarter century as he was and is a family friend. It's the kind of behaviour I'd expect from Chansiri or the Pozzo Family, when written on paper. SL gets seems to get a free ride because he's English and from Bristol with regards to the overall strategy. The only benefit has been the infrastructure.

Blame lies squarely with the owner. And yes I'm aware of FFP.