Quote: Armavinit "Could the infamous claim by Bumpy, that contracts had been backloaded be true and that’s why the ratio appears to be lopsided? He’d love being here and telling us all “I told you so”. A lot of his birds appear to be coming home to roost.'"
No Bumpy is an embittered fool. The salary split up is similar to most clubs. Maybe Wigan, who have a lot of young, up & coming home grown players on their roster can distribute it more more evenly but that option isn't available to most clubs. Even then if these players become really good then they still would have to offload some to maintain that distribution.
No doubt Radford will eventually be moved out - probably following a run of indifferent results just like the vast majority of those that coach at top level. If you look at the history of any club not many coaches left because they were doing too well so simple odds say most appointments end in tears. Following those odds and predicting a coaches demise doesn't show any great insight at all, its happened to a lot of very good ones. In this city two of the most successful of all coaches, Arthur Bunting & Roger Millward left in rather sad circumstances in the end - did that make them rubbish?