Those on twitter have a look at McNally tonight. Getting some stuff off his chest

[Mike 2]

McNally is spot on..14th and below them was an utter embarrassment. Looking forward to our transition being over and us becoming competitive again... next season, I believe Mr Webber said.

[PurpleCanary 5,557]

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Overall McNally did a good job, and he was a fan of mine ("Always good to hear from you, PurpleCanary!") but there is some serious rewriting of history there. Asked why we didn''t sign a good centre-back that Neil promotion summer he blames it on a lack of cash, and linking that to the owers having their debt repaid.

The reality, as he explained some time later that season, was that the club made the money available for a high-class centre-back, with the fee and the personal terms all agreed, and the deal fell through at the very last moment only because the selling club (probably Napoli) couldn''t find a replacement.So we missed out not because Smith and Jones demanded their money back but because we went, presumably on McNally''s advice, as the director in effective charge of transfers, for a very high-risk strategy, with a high chance - as happened - of failure.

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What he is saying now:

"Any reason we didn''t properly strengthen the Striker/Centre back

positions when we were promoted David? We were always going to be

relegated with Jerome/Martin/Bassong in those key positions?" "Yes . Cash . & yet directors loans were repaid. Bizarre."Bears no relation to what he said about transfers that summer in his interview with The Little Bird Project:"We were a month behind [because of the play-off final] with our peers in developing squads for the season. We couldn''t do anything before then...and there were two or three [attempted transfers] that hit the post because of matters outside of our control. There was a centre-half from Italy that was coming here who wanted to join us. We had agreed the fee with his club, we had agreed everything with his agent, but the deal depended on the selling club finding a replacement, and that didn''t happen. We had three of those happen in the last week."

Far from any mention of a lack of money, he says on the record it was there for that centre-half, and presumably for at least one of the others that fell through in the final week, and it is  fair assumption one of those was a striker. Turning to twitter and an audience of followers to blame the owners for starving him of cash to line their own pockets when he''d previously made it clear that was not the problem still doesn''t strike me as very sensible.