Dunno. Maybe he insisted and perhaps they weren't that far off data-wise, so they probably came to an agreement. Didn't work out well, did it? In Tony we trust!
Yeah, thought as much really. It wasn't that we weren't signing players, it was that RDZ wanted too much of a say in who we signed. If this was explained to him from the outset, he should have known really that it was never going to work long-term. Fab seems to have bought into the club...