[quote user="Caramac"]Jas, I wish I got my chain yanked like that a little more often! So what if the club is dressing it up a little bit to look like someone at NCFC had been very clever - the essence is that it was a 1-year loan/deal with an option of a further 3 years if City paid a further 1.1 million. So not the 4-year deal that they publicised at the time. Of course this means that the 2.2 million they said they spent on players over the summer needs to be reallocated a little bit - as pretty much everyone assumed that Dave cost us 1 million euros (£700k) - so maybe Cureton, Russell, Marshall et al cost a little bit more than assumed. This club couldn''t be less transparent if someone smeared vaseline over Fred Scuttle''s glasses. [/quote]The club has been perfectly transparent. They NEVER said Strihavka cost £1million at the time. True, they said he signed a 4 year deal, which he HAD. A four year deal with an option for the club to cancel it at any point during the first year to save a ton of money if he wasnt up to it. OK they didn''t tell us that at the time, but they didn''t say anything to suggest this wasn''t the case, surely they don''t have to tell us every detail of every player''s contract? And, surely you have to agree, someone at the club has been very clever.The accounts stated that the club spent £2.2million in the summer on Cureton, Russel and Marshall. Which makes sense given that everyone assumed at the time that Marshall cost £1m, Cureton cost £700k, and Russell cost £500k, as reports at the time said.Where is the confusion?