By the way; are we blaming all the signings on Parry? Yes? ....... In that case thank f**k he's away.
We surely can't put the blame of every single poor signing at Parry's feet, that would be unrealistic IMO. There is a whole system of scouting set up, players logged from all over the world at all stages of development.
However, from what I've come to understand, from what Rafa insinuated to the press through various interviews, is that Keane's signing was not down to him.
I think that had a knock-on effect, as with well over 50% of our transfer budget gone on one player, we then had to try and plug several other holes as cheaply as possible. One bad choice of target led to the various other failures or disappointments.
That being said, I still have trouble seeing how we came to spend a comparitively huge (by our standards) amount of money on Dossena? He has barely been used and didn't look like fitting in from day one. Hopefully just another blip in what should be an otherwise effective scouting system.
This summer will tell.
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