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That's a reasonable critique, and one I'd give more time to than Russy's original post.

I don't think any of us know what happened with Mengi. If his value was met, if a buyer pulled out at the last moment, if we decided not to sell because of missing other targets, if the intention was always to keep him.

In general, I wouldn't over-analyse individual players and individual decisions. Overall, the strategy since promotion has been quite clear; prioritise building the foundations of the club, while keeping a competitive but relatively cheap team. As Sweet said in the summer, last year's transfer business was done with 2 or 3 years in mind and most of those players (Andersen, Brown, Chong, Kaminski) are still around.

Certain players and transfers haven't worked out as planned, there have been mistakes, we've been riddled with injuries, the team is massively underperforming on the pitch. But I don't think the overall strategy is the wrong one.