I mean.. £11.5m is still a fair whack.
He was backed last January and should have made the playoffs..
He wrote off our whole academy and with the emergence of Hayden Hackney that is looking like a very silly thing to do indeed!
Last Jan was only about 4 weeks after he had got his foot in the door, which isn't even enough time to learn our own squad, never mind identifying what we need, and then try and find that, and then try and sign that. Obviously scouting, and recruiting is not the manager's job, and nor is it the manager's money.
I fully believe he was just "given" those Jan transfers. Then in the summer window, we sold our best player, cashed in on one we didn't need and then largely only spent money on players who were not good enough (and we had little time to develop).
It was telling that he brought back a player who was ousted by the previous manager and written off by the club, and who has now turned out to be one of our best players.
I think we pulled the rug from under his feet, and failed to deliver on the promises of replacing Tav and signing two quality strikers. We loaned Muniz who looked decent initially, but we shouldn't have been pinning hopes of promotion on a 21-year-old who has barely played for his former club.
Seems to me he thought he was coming in as the manager, and the club thought otherwise or acted otherwise, yet told him he was the manager. This seems to have been confirmed by us calling Carrick head coach, maybe we've given up on the false promises, or Carrick didn't want to be known as the manager, if he had no say off the grass.
I don't blame Wilder for not trying Hackney when under pressure because of the club's actions, and think he probably would have played him eventually, but Hackney's not had anywhere near enough games to say he could have made a difference in the earlier games. Saying that mind Mowatt did zero, and nobody knows where Luongo is, but neither of those would have been Wilders 1st choices, I'd bet my house on that.
I think Wilder might have got a bit stuck in his ways, largely out of frustration, so we ended up in a bit of a deadlock which we couldn't break. Wilder couldn't think outside the box that the club locked him in, and the club didn't want to open the door either.
Hopefully Carrick can sort it out, he seems like a decent lad with a good personality, just hope we don't shaft him.