No my point was that he was a safe pair of hands while the club (Round, Wyness et al) decided what the Villa way would be. I would hope that at the end of the season, promotion or not, we would have done sufficient work in the 2 years since Xia took over to have established what this Villa way or playing, recruiting etc is. Maybe it will take longer than 2 but I hope not. As I said in another post if Bruce is the 'Villa way' long term on the playing side of things, then we're in trouble but short term, I think he's the right man until the Villa way is established in the background.
Again these players are the short term part of a longer term plan. It's a risk averse initial strategy. You knew what you're getting with those players. We disagree on the VFM aspect fair enough, but there was no one for the younger lads to look up to bar say Jedinak in the squad (Gabby says hi).
I think that we will reap the rewards of these signings longer term but it will be hard to quantify an exact monetary amount. If our younger players e.g. Davis green o'hare etc come through and make the grade we are effectively rebuilding our squad,. I think they will only be made better by having the Terrys etc around the place (increasing sell on value, better chance of promotion etc) which can only be a good thing.