Who was the last club to come up and spend 1 million and stay in the prem? or who was the last club to spend that amount and stay up (of the clubs who are relegation candidates)? Also, if we stay up will we do the same again and spend maybe 2 million or overtime would the club look to spend more? The argument that I read/hear is 'well we spent money before and we went down so why should we do it again?' is ridiculous - I mean so we got burnt before we won't do it again this is football sometimes you get burnt but sometimes you have to spend the cash and that is another issue with having owners who don't have lots of money that are less keen to spend the money as it probably means more to them and well they don't have the resources to keep spending 20 million every time. The thing about the spending lots in my opinion was a whole load of circumstances - Hooper was a brilliant forward in Scotland, RvW was excellent in his record of scoring that was around 14 million spent but that didn't work because Hughton didn't manage them well and the style of play was terrible also the fact that RvW picked up an injury and his confident went and Hughton/coaches just didn't see this and stuck to one game plan - Hooper again suffered that season - if they would have had a different manager you never know that season. Why buy two goal scorers for decent money and go 4-4-1-1 or 4-1-5-1 he at times had RvW on his own with us sitting back and the same with Hooper and we all knew it wasn't working. In that season we also spent money on Ollson, Redmond and Garrido who were all decent for us so that side worked - Then the AN cash splash was just stupid Naismith was the main money spent around 8/9 million which in terms of football is still nothing (but to poor millionaire owners it is). Klose cost around 7 million but he is still here and has been good for us when fit so would we see that as a failure? Along with those two Pinto 2 mil , Maddison 2 mil , Jarvis 2 mil , Godfrey. combined it comes to around 20 million but that was down to poor summer planning - AN thought Whittaker - Bassong - Martin - Turner - Bennett would work in the prem plus playing one of your biggest signings in Brady at Left Back when he had been performing as an attacking left winger shows the poor vision of the season he had. Like DF he wanted to give the championship side a chance and it went tits up (probably because AN lost confidence in his ability and decided to turn into Hughton). I think spending that much in a January window is a sign you fucked up summer and are in a panic or was it the same as DF has had to deal with (no money and see what is happening in January) AN spent around 7 million got 3 loans in and 2 free players then jan came and they then decided to give him some money.....too late. The argument of spending money and it, not working can also be used to not spending money and it not working as Worthy can tell you I think he spent around 2 million and then again got to January and then splashed the cash on Ashton but it was too late. Summer planning is key and the last few times we have got it wrong. I am not a fan of splashing the cash in January.
