My fear of 'small' managers is that they have a small mentality like Woy....methinks AVB had the same.
Cautious conservative approach to the game.
Furhermore they will not be able to attract Big name players that easily.

For discussion sakes of smaller names, what of Di Matteo...only for discussion.

Your buddy Max_07, whom you like to refer to says English players are crazily overpriced. When someone says "Overpriced" in football transfer dealings and in whatever tangible geomarket nowadays, by definition it mean that the quality and value does not justify the amount of money spent on it.

Which is exactly what I have been pointing out all along.

The point of debate here is Kenny/Commoli or even Paul Tomkins think he's worth that much is the main reason why the first two got sacked by the club. And I'm not talking only about Carroll. It's the whole transfer dealings on the Brit brigade that costed them their jobs.

You are right in the sense that the price is indirectly hedged to Torres's transfer fee, but again, THERE's nothing positive came out of it and there's a thing I can relate to our club from this dealing, it only made us look more foolish for paying up the jacked up fees.

"Oh FSG earned from the Torres and Carroll dealings. Oh FSG didn't use a dime at all!"

I mean who cares man, core of the issue is we splashed the cash on overrated players. AND that's what we should prevent from happening in the future.