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Cameron Burgess

To play devil's advocate about a couple:

Resigning Ayew was not a terrible signing, resigning him with no relegation clauses to deal with his Premier League level wages was the problem

Roque Mesa on paper looked like an ideal signing for an understudy and successor to Leon. If I remember correctly he was near the top of relevant metrics in La Liga outside of the top three (Barca, Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao) for a defensive midfielder. Unfortunately he couldn't adapt to the pace and extra physicality of the Premier League, but that can happen and he won't be the first to have shone elsewhere and failed in English football.

Clucas and Baston are indefensible indeed though :LOL:
How we got money at all from Villa for Baston was daylight robbery rather than paying them to take him off us
Resigning him for more than £20m was…

Agree re relegation clause.

To be completely honest, the way we signed him (and Gomis was the same) first time round was just ruinous to us as a club. The huge signing bonuses caused us no end of trouble.

And Ayew’s salary second time was unforgiveable.
 
Clucas.

Baston,

Ayew (second time).

Roque Mesa.

All absolute abominations of signings.

Different league to not signing Joey.

Those were all poor signings, although none would have relegated us by themselves. Had we signed prime Allen he would have kept us up. Huge difference.
 
Those were all poor signings, although none would have relegated us by themselves. Had we signed prime Allen he would have kept us up. Huge difference.
Trying to lowball Liverpool for 6m when they wanted to sell him for 12m was daft
Canas and Mesa had both flopped, Leon had retired and we desperately needed a controlling midfielder
 
Trying to lowball Liverpool for 6m when they wanted to sell him for 12m was daft
Canas and Mesa had both flopped, Leon had retired and we desperately needed a controlling midfielder
Mesa showed signs of quality but just couldn’t click, everything he did seemed to go wrong, but it was almost good. Canas was miles off it.
 

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