I appreciate you may not have said this personally, but I'm typing on my phone and I cba to check, but after Mbemba signed it was all over this board that we 'definitely weren't signing anyone else'.
At one point, it was all over the board that Carver would be given the permanent job and we'd spend nothing.
At one point, certain individuals were telling every fucker else to calm down when they pointed out that Pardew was a shit manager and a horrible gobshite who was ruining our most talented players and any chance we had of success.