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Since EM came in I would be surprised if many teams at all have a similar rate of churn to us.
Doesn’t help that a lot of our churn has focussed on bargain basement players and I shudder to think how much it has cost us and is costing us.
The teams you have mentioned - Brentford, Leeds, Sheff Utd and Norwich have all either been promoted or at least challenged for it whereas the best we have managed is last season’s collapse so we are obviously doing something very wrong if this method is a successful one...
I am not so sure about the bargain basement bit; there have been some mistakes but a good number of the deals involving players like Boucharakis and Soudani and some of those other fringe players have been financially beneficial.
The one thing those other Clubs have had that we have not is continuity of managers, and that is the key.
Churn is common place, particularly on the continent; good managers deal with it.