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Instead we got Bambi (Marcus Bent) on loan from Charlton in another cheap summer signing.
Further analysis of the summer transfer moves smack of chairman reluctant to give his manager funding to improve the team, and instead with one eye on his replacement.
The £5.5 million outlay on Jason Koumas was as good as recouped with the departure of Leighton Baines and the other additions (bar Michael Brown) were free transfers or loan moves.
Of course the additions of Titus Bramble and Andreas Granqvist appear to be shrewd moves, but players like Antoine Sibierski (his impressive start aside) and Marcus Bent are just not what the club needs.
Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for the help that Dave Whelan has given to this club but he needs to show some backing or perhaps let in a group of foreign investors he hates so much. At least they would take pride in what we put out onto the pitch each week.
At the start of each summer our outspoken chairman spouts off about his backing for the manager and promises a £20 million war chest and each summer we get a few free transfers and one big signing.
So next time you are tempted by the Hutchings out idea, just remember that a workman is only as good as his tools. I dare say the display against Pompey would have been very different if we had Benjani and Utaka as our forward line instead of Bambi and Braindead.
Time to get the cheque book out Mr Whelan and spend some of that money the Icelandic men gave you for JJB. Ah I forget, the transfer window doesn't open until January and it could be too late by then.
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