Budgets will fall in 2018-19 but Nigel Adkins confident Hull City can still challenge The Tigers can move another step closer towards Championship survival when they host QPR tomorrow Nigel Adkins expects to be handed a reduced budget at the KCOM Stadium next season, but maintains it will be enough to see Hull City again competing at the top end of the Championship. The Tigers currently have one of the highest wage bills outside the Premier League following their relegation from the top flight last May, with annual salaries totalling just under £30m. A failure to bounce back at the first attempt will have inevitable financial repercussions in 2018-19. Income is guaranteed to fall with parachute payments received from the Premier League going from £40m this season to £33m next term and Adkins knows that will impact on his plans for 2018-19. “The owner knows the budget,” said Adkins, whose City side will aim to further ease drop fears when hosting QPR tomorrow. “It might fluctuate a little bit but it won’t be the budget we’re on now I’d suggest. “We’ve got to operate within the means of running the football club. please log in to view this image Hull City head coach Nigel Adkins “I want us to be challenging for getting ourselves promoted next season and as far as I’m concerned, we’ll have an opportunity to be challenging at the right end of the table. That’s what we’re after. “We’ve got to cut our cloth accordingly, as all football clubs have got to do, but I want us up there challenging.” Adkins is unlikely to be handed significant funds for squad strengthening as owners Assem and Ehab Allam look to sell up, but City’s wage bill in 2018-19 will fall significantly once a string of high earners reach the end of their contracts this summer. Michael Dawson and Abel Hernandez are two of the club’s highest earners and are almost certain to depart on free transfers, while senior figures such as David Meyler, Allan McGregor, Seb Larsson and Adama Diomande are also in the final weeks of their deals. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/budgets-fall-2018-19-nigel-1424054
So Adkins thinks that we can mount a promotion challenge, on the back of losing McGregor, Dawson, Aina, Hector, Tomori, Meyler, Wilson, Diomande, Hernandez, Larsson etc. and having a low budget to recruit new players?
Nigel can hardly say anything else other than we will be pushing for a promotion place. It can be done, as we have seen with Cardiff and Sheff U on a smallish budget, but not having "a non-footballing man at the helm" he is likely to **** up the summer as he has the last 2.
I like this new word. Mark my words in years to come it will find its way into the Oxford English I'm sure. And Dennis will get the credit he deserves. The unfuckoffables
Nige stating the obvious! Of course he will want to be challenging! He's hardly going to say "id love to be challenging, but we have the square root of **** all to spend so we will be fighting to stay in the League again"
