When the vultures came to dismantle our team caused by our on field success P.H had the job to rebuild,.Not any easy task but he had time and money to spend.Shortly after our near neighbours in Sheffield enjoyed a promotion and had the task of strengthening for there forth coming Championship campaign.Both managers it seems were shopping in the same arenas but where as Sheff.Utd spent about 1 million on players we spent roughly 6 million.Its looking to me that Mr Wilder could pick a player more than our own P.H. I'd like to add I was a massive P.H fan and he will go down in the clubs history for what he achieved but the majority of his signings haven't been quite good enough for what we wanted.Before some come back with the old "Spredsheet "line let me remind you in one of Pauls last interviews for the club he stated he chose the players he wanted not ones that were offered to him.
A big difference mate is they had older players with little sell-on value, but we’re still effective players for them, Billy sharp to name one. They weren’t dismantled and kept the momentem going. My zBlunt supporting mate thinks they are now finding their level and will finish mid table. He is dreading the summer in that they may lose Wilder, will Deffo lose Brooke’s.
They got incredibly lucky with Leon Clarke, a journeyman who even their own fans weren’t impressed by when he signed. It’s just sod’s law that he was profilic at the start of the season which lead to United getting off to the flyer.
Becky didn’t chose the players tbe soreadsheet did and we failed to upgrade from Dos to Windows when we got promoted.
Exactly this, wilder should get manager of the year solely for getting Leon Clarke to look like a championship striker!
It’s not just Clarke either. John Fleck, Paul Coutts, Enda Stevens et al. These are standard L1 players who suddenly look/looked world beaters.
