Why did Austin sign a contract extension last summer then? Was it not obvious the lies ar that point? Or something changed this last season even further?
Perhaps it was an option or something similar.
I think enough people have come out of the club now saying or insinuating that what they were sold wasn’t the reality when they joined. Word gets around about things like that in football and I know we had debate earlier in the year about “no one will want to sign for us” but the reality of that statement (or at least what I took from it) isn’t in the literal sense of “there won’t be a single soul who wants to join us”, as January proved, but more so the issue that who does end up here will very likely be in either a situation where they have very little to no other offers, in a last chance saloon type situation or are confident they can get in quickly, get what they need and get out. Once a club gets a reputation like that to be avoided, it’s hard to shake.
Now the counter argument to that is that you can still find some gems that way (e.g Glatzel) and that’s probably what they’ll be hoping for but the reality is that you can’t build a club like that and you only get lucky for so long.