I'm no fan of our owners, but Martin has the same players he had before and after the January window who he couldn't get a tune out of, now they're flying. Is it the manager's fault or down to the players that we only do well in spurts?
I'd also say the owners got their fingers burnt in the last 2 January windows. 20/21, we were contending for automatic promotion, so they signed Hamer, Freeman, Whittaker and loaned in Hourihane, Morris and Arriola, on top of a pretty busy summer. Those lot would have cost a pretty penny and didn't pay off.
Last January they brought in Fisher, Ogbeta, Christie, Wolf, Burns. They didn't do much to improve our results and again wouldn't have been cheap. Even worse, Martin proceeded to ignore 2 of them completely and Fisher was no better than we already had.
Can't really blame them for not loosening the purse strings this January based on that history and where we were in the table at the time.