Poor decision not to spend big last season.

[DiamondLites]

Both Levy & Redknapp are as much to blame as each other. It still baffles me how we spent pretty frivolously on players like Bentley (15m) Bent (16m) Bassong (8m) to get into the CL, and then having got there suddenly decided to scrimp and scrape for every penny. We had the fillet of CL football to really go after a better class of player to compensate for our wage limitations, but we fudged around. Had VdV not fallen into our laps at the 11th hour, it would have been as embarassing as the January window was

This window is going a similar way, we are praying for an 11th hour signing to save us