Owen, you can't base all future transfers on one crocked player. We have signed players like shearer when he was a big name player, we have had the likes of Ginola, Ferdinand, Cole, even players like Emre and Martins are big name players compared to what we have now.
I am not saying lets go out and buy players who have a massive rep but nothing to hold to it from the past 5 years, we just need to bring in better players, and better players, unless we buy them when they are 12 years old from sweden or soming, will have a higher rep than most the players we have atm.
A few years ago we wouldn't even have thought about looking at players like Carlton Cole, Zamora and Nugent, but these days these players wouldn't likely look at us.
Our main appeal is that we have a ******* awesome stadium, and an awsome set of supporters, I just hope that CH can bring in players from the continent or what ever, because I am sure alot of them havent heard of him, If we had someone like Shearer in charge, it would be a different matter.
I am not against giving CH a chance, because yes, hes got us promoted, but even with all the **** around the club at the start of the season, we still have Argentinian Internationals playing for us, we still have proven prem players playing for us, for us not to have been promoted this season would have been a joke, I think there are alot of managers that would have loved to be where CH was this season, considering the team we already had, he got to spend in Jan, what did he get, Leon Best on a 2 and a half year contract, and Routledge on the same. I just don't see the logic in that, I could see why you would bring them in on loan, but neither are Prem standard imo, Wayne has tryed with so many clubs, and it has never come off for him, maybe it's because he isn't good enough for the league.
anyway, thats just my opinion on the matter.