symyjym
Banned
To be fair to Gus too, how many of the players he sold are regulars in their 'once Premiership' teams? That was good business. We're obviously not looking to pay huge money in wages or transfers, hence the investment in development, and injuries played their part this season too.
With the players that were sold I am not too sure he had much influence over. Bennett and Noone were sold at a profit, but Murray was just let go. I don't want to go down the Murray issue as it is so long ago now, but the deal could have been to resign him for £zero, and sold him later.
In our first Championship season we got CMS, Hoskins, Buckley, Vicente and Harley. Three of those had a history of injury problems, one was shite, and in hindsight we are still dealing with the Hoskins and Buckley injuries now. Throw Orlandi into the injury mix and old legs Lopez it was never building for the future.
In the Premireship clubs can afford to make mistakes because they can afford to cover them up with new signings, we can't. Gus was more suited to the top tier where you have a better draw for players and larger established squads.