[jjamez]

The most depressing thing about that list of players is we were told by Dean Hoyle that you get better value for your money abroad.

I wonder what he thinks now

I'd suggest that the value for money is still abroad, I think, if mbenza or diakhaby had been English you'd have been looking at double the price, I mean shaun Wright Phillips cost 16mil over a decade ago, that probably translates to about 26mil now? Liverpool paid 30mil for Carroll and West ham paid 15, whilst we paid 12 for mounie.

I think the value is out there as we found with the signings of schindler, Lowe and to some extent kache and heff. It's the identifying of said talent that is lacking or maybe not so much the talent as día, mbenza and tk have got ability in there, but identifying the right attitudes of which they are lacking.