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Let's face it, no one wants to come here that would enhance the team long-term, we've become pariahs. And Harry's all about short-term anyway. Never seems to bring in the youth, he's over-reliant on over-paid, older players. The loans we've been associated with are either nutters like Osvaldo or high-cost, short-termers like M'Vila. Except apparently Osvaldo doesn't want to come here anyway.
In the summer Harry was given the funds to build a team that could do well in the Prem, certainly one that wouldn't struggle. Yet again, he's failed. Supporting QPR has become a miserable experience these days, and it looks like Harry will drag us down, like he has before, and like he has other teams before. He should have been pensioned off when we got promoted, but Fernandes either doesn't have the vision or he's under Harold's spell - or both - because the profligate pocket-liner is still with us.
And now we have another bunch of players who are either under-performing or injured or constantly unfit. What is going on?
Caulker has proved to be a lesser player than we thought under Harry and the same can be said of Jordon Mutch, except more so. That's a tidy £14 million or so just there. Rio has proved to be over the hill, so that's another waste of a first team berth with another high wage earner. Sandro was a recognised crock Spurs were happy to unload at £8 million. He's been injured for most of his time here so far. £5 million Matty Phillips from last season has never been properly integrated and remains a marginal player. The only player who has showed some worth is £8-10 million Leroy Fer, and he hasn't proved as great as we hoped either.
Two loans have proven their worth: Isla and Vargas. As far as I can see, that's the only really good business we've done. The other loan, Harry's perennial favourite Nike Kranjcar has also proved marginal.
So that's a cool £30 million spent on transfer fees alone, and here we are, back in the relegation zone in January, still lumbered with this over-rated, over-the-hill manager and a tweeting chairman who just never seems to learn.
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