Look at the list of arrivals in that season. If you need me to go through and break it down and explain why each player wasn't good enough then we may as well end the conversation now. The only ones that were Premier League quality were Negredo, Valdes and potentially De Roon. Traore was nowhere near ready at that point.
Ramirez obviously downed tools. The rest of those players are not Premier League quality. Most of them aren't even Championship quality. The defenders we signed were garbage.
Im not under any assumption that thats all Karanka had to do to get players. But the bottom line is those players were not good enough to survive even if you had had Guardiola at the helm. Whoever made those signings should got the boot. Maybe it was Karanka however he made strong suggestions that a lot of these signings were done without his blessing.
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Hindsight is a fine thing. Too many people still thought signing players at that time as easy As the robson days. Players have to be convinced go come here and some simply wont want to and ots not hard to understand why. To say he wasnt backed was a nonsense. I imagine we tied very hard for players within out budget but they jusy wouldnt come. You cant just go out click your fingers and sign world beaters. I dont get why thats so hard to understand. Karanka was a bad workman blaming his tools and thats been borne out at every club hes been at - unless theyve all failed to back him