Nothing wrong with a little overspending, or additional investment, if it’s executed professionally via a good owner, a good team of staff behind it, sound strategy, etc, but not overspending on the scale we did, with none of the other bits involved necessary to be successful, and some blind target of getting us in the Championship. We need some investment over and above a household economy type budget or we’re National League or worse for an indefinite period.
I don’t entirely agree with that. I understand the need to sometimes speculate to accumulate but too often “investment” just means “buying players” in football which isn’t much of an investment at all. Investment is improving facilities, investment is creating an outstanding academy, investment is building bonds with your supporters and community to tide you through the bad times. Investment isn’t giving huge wages for players who you don’t even manage to sell on for a profit.
