Yeah, he really struggled with them but they were a mess and he was only young. Didn’t boro ramp the price up to near British record levels for him which increased the pressure.
In one of Dalglish autobiographies he says we needed to plan for the long term for the defence and midfield. Pallister was meant to be sewn up and the board found the funds for Gazza. Then Rush got in touch to say he’d been told he could leave and put us in a dilemma.
At the time we couldn’t take the risk of saying no even though we’d transformed the team and he was picking up niggling injuries. Think he even had hepatitis when we signed him and he was never the same and we got old overnight.
Re gazza, we told him not to sign for spurs as we’d got the money together and it turned out hed just signed the contract which lead him to smash up his hotel room. This has now bizarrely turned into Fergie contacted him when it was no secret it was us and the mancs were shite then so he never going there at that time.