So, if my maths is correct, he's made over £5m playing for us. 
Why did I try so hard at school and not just play it off over the park, honing my skills 
Not quite I think his initial contract was relatively short (2 years?) and considerably less generous but we gave him a new contract in 2017 until 2020. Question: what is worse than peak HRK? Answer: post peak HRK. What are we currently paying for? Post Peak HRK. Will anyone ever take post peak HRK at £25k a week or if promoted at £50k a week? No. Could we have done something different and more than likely better for the same money or less? Hell yes. Unfortunately we are where we are and this is the legacy Darren Moore has to deal with.
Why do teams under perform their payroll? Off the top of my head I can think of four or five.
1. Injury. Key players get injured for instance our payroll was greatly inflated by Daniel Sturridge last season and we got zero bangs for those bucks. You can look at other examples Arsenal for instance have spent literally millions on players whose injury records have been just awful. Ramsey, Wellbeck Wilshire etc... Yes all teams suffer with injury but when 20% of your payroll is out it makes a difference.
2. Mismatch between Coaches style and players at the club. Expensively assembled and well rewarded squad has been put together to play a certain way get new Head Coach with different ideas things go wrong.
3. Jose Mourinho in his 3rd season. Yes I joke but there is a pattern.
4. Gross Mismanagement of a squad. This has several sub sections of bad management which mega rich clubs can indulge in but the mere mortals like ourselves quickly run into to trouble if we go down the path. Put simply paying too much money for too little talent.
5. Your Head Coach is Alan Pardew. It is the Loins lead by donkeys syndrome. Nothing much wrong with the squad players paid what they are worth but your club has played Head Coach roulette and the ball has landed on zero and congratulations you have won Alan Pardew. I might be unfair it is not just Alan but you get my drift.
6. A big influx of players which bloat the wage bill but don't gel. Say hello Fulham.
Where are we? Injuries haven't played any significant part in where we find ourselves. We have 2 and 4. This squad was put together to play Pulisball and now Moore is trying to get that Elephant to dance.
I have sympathy for his position. The squad is what it is and it isn't going to be fixed overnight and even if it were see point 6 above. However the question is Moore up to the task?
We have a rookie Head Coach managing a dysfunctional squad although one that is on paper stronger than most in the division. In the case of Pulis or Pardew we had known quantities. Pulis was a functional grinder and Pardew was a fraud based on records that stretched back seasons.
Whereas Moore is still an unknown quantity. Prior to this season I would never have guessed that we would be trying to play the football we are trying to play. It might be ill advised it might be a mistake the biggest and tragically the only one he gets to make but it is undoubtedly brave has some basis in logic and deserves our support.
