Clearly The Premier League were worried about putting it out to tender and the risk of a significant drop in the value of the deal.
'Same again, lads? Please...'
No, he was mostly absolute dogshit. He also (around 2011-2014) had the best group of players we had since Souness ripped the team apart and was still hopeless.
Christ, man. Imagine the response from one of the press fired that back
'I don't see why you're bringing not having enough to spend up, you had the biggest spend of any team in the championship and you were still shit'