“We inherited a squad where every single player who has left is no longer playing in the Premier League, doesn’t that say something? We have replaced and replenished the squad at a very low cost because most of them were free transfers. This is the first window that we have spent big money [last January Bobby Zamora was bought for £4.5 million and Djibril Cissé for £4 million]. One is Chris Samba who we’ve wanted for three transfer windows. It has been our problem from day one — a centre-back. Chris is a good guy, he’s 28 and whether we go up or down he will be with us. We are building a team around him.