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It's more who it was given to that in hindsight (though most people knew Souness was hardly a great manager) wasn't the best idea. Shepherd went all-in on a pair of deuces and lost. Oh, I am not condoning the appointment, far from it, but as NE5 says, Souness was their appointment, they obviously believed in him, so from that perspective it isn't exactly strange that they backed their man in a similar vain to other clubs who believe in their manager? They backed the wrong man, and the wrong man invested their backing badly, no doubt about that..
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This 50 million that keeps popping up, would somebody care to explain where it comes from based on incoming and outgoing transfer fees? As far as I can see we had sold Woodgate before Souness came in, and we sold Jenas during that period, which makes the actual figure invested closer to 30 million over the space of 3 transfer windows, which I imagine is not too disimilar to other top 6 teams at that time. We had to invest to keep up with the competition. We invested badly, unfortunately, but I don't understand why the investment itself is deserving of criticism.. How else do people expect to get (back) in the top half of the table?