Would You Trust Recruitment With Summer 2020?

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Why is Pearce always used as a shining example of recruitment? Have people forgotten how Fryatt and Veldwijk turned out?

Because his failures were cheap, so could be carried, yet where he invested money it reaped rewards. In Britt & Antonio we sold 2 players who reaped us 22m. I doubt you'd get that if we sold all of the current regimes signings together.

He also has a ton of British contacts who know the young British players in the game, and gets the heads up on players like Adams & Maguire before lots of other bigger clubs do.

And he also sold Darlow & Lascelles, and managed to retain them on loan. That's just f*****g brilliant business.