But he did buy some good players

Drury; Holt; Francis; Edworthy; Hucks; Leon; Safri; Gallacher; Ashton; Earnshaw; Croft. Total number = 11 out of 35 players he bought, which is 31.5%. Total transfer fee cost of these players (not wages etc which we don't know) = about ?10m, which is about 65% of his total FEE spend. That?s not a bad ratio IMHO.

And Colin is starting to look decent, and so is Dion.

Worthy's record shows two huge purchasing cock-ups, I think. The first was that he failed to strengthen us sufficiently when we got promoted. (EG If he had bought Ashton in the summer instead of in January, we would probably have stayed up.) The second, and this is the one that really stands out for me, was that he made a TOTAL BOLLOCKS of his purchases in the summer after relegation. That season he acquired MLJ, Jarrett, Uncle Peter, Hughes, Colin, Bobinson, and Etuhu. And he only got the last two after the failure of Hughes and Jarrett to play anything even faintly resembling football. No wonder we were a shambles last season. So he pissed away of our first season of parachute payments..

Posted By: Old Git, Dec 1, 15:48:05