I guess what I meant was that more than once Boro have sold a player for x amount and I've had to double check the fee because it just looked too high, Latte Lath the most recent example. But yes fair enough, I'd forgotten about Morgan Rogers entirely.
In a strange way I suppose you almost have to thank 'Ratboy' and Wolves for paying you £4 million to get a better manager, Viveash as coach and a free motivational boost for the squad. I'm genuinely struggling to think of a worse managerial switch, it was just monumentally stupid on his part. Long way to go of course but I think either of our squads this season would have got more points than whatever Wolves get this season.
In some ways you are correct, others not so.
The main one not is in regards to Viveash. Along with Gibbo, Kieran Scott, our head of recruitment., hired Viveash personally, he was nothing to do with Edwards. Edwards brought his own man, Harry Watling with him, so when he displayed his Rodent-like qualities, Watling felt bound to go with him.
Viveash on the other hand was disgusted by his behaviour and vowed not only to stay put at a club he was clearly as comfortable at as yours, but to take over the caretaker manager role in the interim even if it was outside his comfort-zone. He's a man of honour and our fans feel a great affinity towards him.
In a way with a lot of the rest you are closer to the truth at least with regard to the way things unfolded with no foresight to their means; the fan base were galvanised as there's nothing like a common enemy to unite. The 4M of course is certainly not to be sniffed at, but if it had seriously screwed our season from where we were then it could feasibly have been a drop in the ocean. Though personally I think we'd have finished about 5th from there under Edwards had he stayed, with a good amount of that down to Viveash.
Hellberg looking for work of course was very good fortune, not down to Edwards who didn't give us a second thought.
I think both our squads in their current level would get relegated from the Prem as it stands (but of course we'd also both strengthen upon promotion), but nowhere near as embarrassingly as Wolves. * As a separate aside, it hasn't escaped our attention that a lot of the sides with eternal parachute payments, that seem to bounce up and down repeatedly between the divisions more than Ron Jeremy's mattress (Burnley, Sheff Utd, Leicester, yes I mean YOU) have little chance of staying up, the ones that do most often seem to be those that haven't had a stab at it for a while (Brentford, Brighton, Forest, most recently it looks like Sunderland), their battle is just getting there and it's high time we didn't have a single parachute sides going up just to shake things properly*
Wolves to be frank are abominable, and a lot of our fans are finding Edwards' car crash failure absolutely hilarious tbh. We also hold no regard for Jeff Shi who runs the show and want them to break Derby's record under his tenure as they go down. We were also hoping to get them in the FA Cup, but that was always a tall order!
We do feel somewhat sorry for Wolves fans, aside from a few gloating idiots, but tbh a period of complete collapse would probably speed up both charlatans out of their club in time as it often does and be better for them in the long run. The same way the making of our club in the modern age was us going down to the 3rd tier for the second season in our history and actually folding in 86, when an almost teenage looking Steve Gibson rallied a consortium to step in at the eleventh hour.
