When you bring in virtually a whole new team you have to expect that some of those signings will not be successful. We had no money, we still have no money, we had to take some risks and a great majority of those players were successful, i.e. Thathcher, Howey(when he was fit was a good player), Scumica, Freund, Ferdinand, Bent, Dabizas, Nalis (who was good towards the end of the season and will be better next season)...are these all S*it players? If they are why so upset at losing them? I reject the argument that Bassett has done nothing, with no money what do you want? He really isn't a miracle worker, but he is doing his best within his given set of circumstances, and as I have said he gives us options at the moment...we really need that now. To say that he has committed a crime by not achieving what O'Neill has achieved is a little on the harsh side...firstly O'Neill is probably the best manager in the country at the moment, secondly, O'Neill never had administration hanging over his head.
As for contract clauses, Someone is to blame, I don't know who but it seems that we are using Bassett as a scapegoat...Its nice and easy to blame one person for the mistakes of the club as a whole isn't it! Howver to do this is really wrong...If we didn't include such provisions we probably wouldn't have signed half the players and would not have been even half as competative as we were.
The type of contracts we can offer players in terms of finances is not decided by Bassett, he doesn't control the clubs finances...because we were in Sh*t street financially we had to offer a great deal of players reduced wages if relegated. The only way many of these players agreed to this is if there were escape clauses. I would rather see players leave than be stuck with a masive wage bill and no way of paying it. As a club we don't need administration again! The club has seen that this policy has not been great and so now will no longer include these clauses (Tim Davies said so on radio Leicester), Bassett can not be blamed for something that had nothing to do with him!
Give Bassett a break, and a chance to show what he can do. Those of you saying hes already had his chance and not performed miracles, I would tell you that when we went back to the prem at the first time of asking was pretty special, given that we were within hours of going out of buisness at one stage. I thought other Leicester fans would be able to see that!
We spent something like £500K on players, and you are right, we didn't stay up, but on occassion I think we fought with the best of them. Who knows, with a period of consolidation (by that I mean the immediate years after administration and not that we should content ourselves with lower league football) we can again spend money. Test Adams and Bassett then...not now!