It's pretty much always been at that price, even before we were taken over. Forest is about the same.
Sounds as if it's just down to the compensation arguments now. City holding out for £1m. NP sitting around all grumpy and grouchy Papa still smarting AP thinking!
AVB cost Chelski £15m I believe. Bit of a different scale I know but still, Leicester are hardly short of cash (even though our owners are actually worth more than theirs )
Oh my good lordy me. Why do so many football fans place such importance on history?! It's means absolutely nothing at all. If Man City fail to win the league this year it will be because they aren't good enough, not because they haven't won it often enough before.
So Liverpool aren't a bigger club than Man City? Were we a bigger club than Leeds two/three years ago?
By all accounts the Allam's have put a massive pricetag on NPs head and wont shift unless it's met. Oooo dear!
Of course they aren't, Man City have infinite money to spend on any player, that is of immense value to the team right now. I have this debate with people all the time and I've yet to hear one reason why being good in the 70s makes you good/important/big now. There isn't one. Man City, along with Utd are obviously the biggest clubs in English football and only rivalled by their two Spanish counterparts in the world. Your other exampple is difficult because no one really understands Leeds finances. I'd say based on them being in League 1 and us being in The PL, having a much better squad and having more money to spend (albeit our owners thought it was even more than that) that we were bigger than them (but are now similar sized clubs). Once you take ther history thing out of it, what makes these clubs (Leeds and Liverpool) special? Nothing. No disrespect to either of them, I expect Liverpool will have a good season and the same goes for TWS (unfortunately). But there is nothing that makes them any 'bigger' than the clubs around them in either case.
Clubs like Chelsea and Man City may have cash now, but in the future they may not. Then they'll go back to what they were before, Prem also-rans who may even dip into the second tier. Blackburn were a good example, albeit over a much smaller time period. Champions to second tier in five years. I bet when they won the league they were set for years. Alas, the past has a way of catching up with you.
Looks set for NP on 'Gardening Duties' and someone like Dowie in as a 'Football Management Consultant'.
As others have pointed out, if you are making unreasonable demands for compensation, as I find it unlikely we're being ungenerous with our wealth, then it will go to tribunal. This will certainly go in our favour as it will disregard the fact that we have more money than most clubs. So better if your board sort it now to get you the best deal.
Well at the end of the day, he's contracted and an asset to our club, we can ask for whatever we want. It's not like when you sign a player, you can turn round and say "I don't want to pay that much" and take it to tribunal and get the price dropped. Why should the manager be any different, after all he's the most important member of the team.
If Leicester in a sense are buying out the rest of the three's contracts, it'll cost them around £800,000. I'm sure we'll be wanting a lot more than that though so I wouldn't be surprised to see us receive over £1m.
