We were already on the slippery slope by appointing McCoist. He blew nearly half his transfer budget on Wallace when our current left back had been one of our most consistent performers for the previous 5 years or so.
He signed the likes of Ortiz, Bedoya, Celik and Matt McKay who despite being captain of Australia didn’t play him.
Did we not blow a 10 point or so lead that season when the players went from Smith’s to McCoist’s tactics.
Circumstances took over for the following season but instead of building foundations with youth he blew nearly a £1million on Templeton, signed the likes of Faure, Stella, Black, Argriou, Sandaza, Cribari, Mohsni, Peralta, Simonsen, Cammy Bell, Clark, Zaliukas, and Kris Boyd who scored 3 goals in over 30 championship games.
The money wasted in the years under McCoist was staggering and set us back ten fold anything Warburton or Pedro did.
We couldn’t even win the Ramsdens Cup ffs under McCoist.
Warburton took over with absolutely nothing. He done his job first time of asking and got us out the championship. Spending just over £1/2million, his second season signings were a joke however he left us with players that made us money. Waghorn, Windass. We should have made money on Wes but at least got our monies worth and some, same with Tav.
Warburton only spent around £2.5 million total, with Joey Garner accounting for half of that.
Pedro inherited Warburton’s second season shambles, but only spent just over £5million net. He brought us Candeias who we got our monies worth and some, Jack and Morelos who will make us a huge profit. Despite what people think he also managed to entice European Championship winner Bruno Alves. A bit like Warburton and his key midfield signing Kranjcar, Dorrans Pedro’s second highest purchase hardly played due to injury.
Where would we be if we hadn’t signed Lafferty, Sadiq, Coulibaly, Worrall, Ejaria, Grezda, Polster, Jones, Stewart, King, Hastie. What have we got in return from them ?