In total, you spent an obscene amount of money. Do I really need to give you a rundown of your own club's transfer record?
Peltier- 750K Danns- Free Schmeichel- 1M St. Ledger- 1.2M Nugent- Free Pantsil- Free Konchesky- 500K Mills- 4M Ball- Free Johnson- Loan Fernandes- Loan Beckford- 2M Recouped 1M from selling Jack Hobbs plus the sell on fee from Gradel So not that much dont always believe the papers
so you're at least £10 million in profit on ticket and merchandise sales after wages go out and before the cash injection?
Plus the insane wage money. You aren't putting it into perspective. That kind of spending is obscene for a second division team. It just raises the threshold that teams will have to spend in the future to be successful and means more money is spent on wages, more owners are forced to keep teams afloat, the fans get ripped off more and football matches become less well attended, less atmospheric and less competitive as a result, because the haves and the have nots are so clearly divided.
So what with parachute payments? More teams coming down from the prem have a 90% chance of going straight back up?
Why? You are the best league in the world you have to pay the best wages? If you drop out you need to be protected?
Their argument is laughable me Lord. They are comparing us to them in the Prem, when they were paying £18m for one player. It's hardly comparable. We'll see what happens. The only purchase I think that was over the odds was Mills. Plus everyone else pretty much came from a Championship club and are being paid similar wages, they just know we have higher ambition. I know that was in Kasper thinking when he jumped the sinking ship.
So are we. Lonergan has been a significant improvement. Although the downside is that even Bates is happy.
Have you heard of perspective or relativity? The comparison is that we were attempting to crudely buy success in the Premiership and you are crudely trying to buy success in the second division. 18m in the Premiership isn't much different from 5m on one player in the Championship, RELATIVELY SPEAKING. Leeds aren't a sinking ship at all, and Kasper was forced out despite his protestations that he wanted to stay. But whatever. Your combined spending total is obscene and some of the reported wage payments I would put in the same category. Do you think spending like this is A) acceptable in football or B) contributing to the ruination of the game? Did you watch his games for us last season? No? Then I suggest you retract your statement that he was a Premiership-quality keeper when with us.
