If we stay up will people admit lambert was right not to splash the cash in January? Or less wrong? It's been a big risk but it looks like he's got away with it again.
Clark and Baker have more experience and touch wood there's more cash in the warchest for the summer.
Add in lescott's performance last night - the most popular target in January - and I'm not sure we'd be *that* much better off especially as it'd reduce our capacity to buy in the summer.
re the first bit, surely that depends on where we'd set out sights for the season. For example, if we stay up on 39 or 40 points, then you can say he was right in that we didn't get relegated through our failure to strengthen the defence, but at the same time, ask questions about whether staying up - better though it is than going down - is really anything to be congratulating him on.
I don't think there is a person amongst us who, at the start of the season, would have had avoiding relegation as the target for this year.
I don't particularly want to get into an argument about what was a realistic target, or whether we should have signed Lescott or whoever else in January, just making the point that it's not as black and white as "he was right not to strengthen, or he was wrong".
I thought Lescott had a bit of a mare last night, too, from what I saw. In his defence, he was playing against Barcelona, not something you had to do every week. I thought he'd have strengthened us quite considerably, but then again, if he was going to cost 90k a week in wages, then I understand why he wasn't an option.