NorCalBlue
Well-Known Member
In fairness to me, I stopped reading at that point :-)In fairness, he does reference that transfer as being an exception in the very next paragraph!
However, paying over the odds for a match-ready centre-back in the January transfer window is such a specific and unusual thing, that even doing it once can't really be brushed away as an exception. It's like saying it's not been the model for me to brutally murder and then eat my next door neighbour, although I made an exception a couple of years back.