Wilder has a 15m transfer profit.
I see that more like £22m in, and losing our best CM, the only CM who would improve over time also.
I don't count the £7m spent on two forwards, as this does not benefit Wilders team. If he wanted them, they would be starting. So, now these are 5th and 6th choice out of 6 in our squad up front, or 4th/5th out of 5 if we don't count McGree. We have 1 good striker and 4/5 who are not, not for where we want to be.
He didn't want McGree at 10, he thought we were signing a no 10. He probably expected McGree to be one of our backup centre mids, behind Tav, Crooks and maybe one other. I imagine he was maybe hoping for some competition with Howson too.
I'm sure he expected us to get a better CM in than Mowatt, and then also if we sold Tav, would have expected him to be replaced. He probably hoped for more than £10m too, selling a critical player for £10m, in a critical position is silly, compared to getting £12m for Spence, who probably wouldn't have even got a game on Jones last year performances.
Money needed to be spent on a LCB, but I don't think he had Clarke in mind, he's no better than McNair last year, but hopefully he will get better, and McNair has not played as well as last year, hopefully that improves too, but he's behind Dijk for me and behind Clarke and Bola for LCB.
I don't think the club will sack him, as they've already thrown him under the bus with selling Tav, and spending £7m on players he didn't need this year.
I think the club would have been hoping for high playoffs, on the proviso they brought in a few players who were needed, and good enough for top 4 sides, but we haven't done it, for one reason or another, so expectations need to be significantly lowered, until we do get those in.
I think we can still get to play-offs, and with a full first XI fit we could get some wins and build some confidence. But we need to start to play football for two halves.
We may also need to have a bit of luck and luck with injuries (not many of them), but if those continue how they started we're not going to make the playoffs or be able to compete in them at least, the backups/ continuous changes will let us down.