by second contract do you mean the one we offered him to make sure he couldn't walk away for free?
if so we only needed to match the salary on his old contract to meet the criteria, as far as I know.
Except he was part of the management that got us into relegation trouble in the first place. Pearson was not associated with anything prior to his appointment.
whatever leon did wrong with regard to what team we could field, he still kept us up. we're not down yet, but i've got a worse feeling this time than the season we finished rock bottom of the prem.
think you're onto a loser with this argument. it's a matter of record on this forum, or the predecessor, that poortvliet was being lined up well before the end of last season.
who really cares? we're not seeing any genuinely outstanding talent anyway. the prospect of losing these "talented" kids is about as interesting as finding out how much we bring in in transfer fees each transfer window to throw into the black hole.