Player sales then regardless of league position?

There should be no doubt Moore was leaving in the Summer, it is quite well documented he failed a medical at Cardiff earlier in the Summer and when this fell through he went to Wigan later in the window.
Out of the three that left this is the one that the big mistake was made, in that they clearly knew all summer he was leaving and should have had an adequate replacement lined up.Having said that it could be argued that we have managed to adequately score goals without him(there are only 11 teams who have scored significantly more than us), so perhaps they saw Chaplin as his replacement.