I think the real issue Supers is whether you can recruit good enough talent. The clubs coming up the season, Reading, Southampton and Wet Spam will all throw money about and I believe the Prem will be stronger than last year when Bolton / Blackburn and Wolves were dire. PL might improve Vanilla idf he goes there and Wigan always sort of get it together at some point. Working to a budget is fine but you need your manager to unearth some gems and at the moment it looks like you haven't got one.
i take your point but the club won't budge and nor should they. if other clubs want to throw money at it then they better hope it works or they'll end up in trouble. i'm much happier with my own club refusing to cave in to players demands. indeed, even bolton threw money around and blackburn too. bolton are £110m in debt
Lets look at Hughton & malky, They already have probably the same if not better funds then yourselves to play with, so they will probably want an increased treasure chest because of being in the premiership they would feel it is necessary, Steve Bruce, although out of a job will definately want some sort of decent financial backing for him to join. So where does that leave you? Yours is a hard job to sum up really, on the one hand your in thepremiership which is great, but on the other would somebody want to come into a side that might struggle without serious investment and have that on their CV.
the major factor in our armoury... WE ARE PREMIER LEAGUE. they are not. its a big trump card and you're kidding yourself if that won't be attractive to some very promising young managers. its not as if we don't have transfer funds - between £15 and £25m seems likely from various sources - its just the wage bill which is low
Guru, we will spend more money than both Cardiff and Birmingham put together this Summer. Birmingham barely have any money.
I'd sooner be relegated to the Championship next season and have a stable club than risk trying to compete with those who want to chuck obscene money around and end up like Portsmouth, Leeds etc. I do find it odd how people say we need to increase our budget as if the money will just magically appear. The premiership money is our only income, we don't have a billionaire backer and probably never will have. We're unfashionable Norwich out in the sticks.
In many ways I feel the Premier League is a poisoned chalice as to survive there is almost ridiculous pressure to up the stakes massively. I'm sure Bolton are looking at the £110m debt and wondering how the hell they got to that stage and what was it for. I agree better to be stable and a yo-yo club a bit like the Blackpool model than we at QPR are doing by throwing stupid money at over rated has beens. Its a fine line between spending wisely, finding the talent and keeping a lid on the expenditure. This is the crossroads you now find yourself at.
good post i'd rather get relegated and not be in debt, nice and stable, than stay up and constantly fight to survive, throwing cash about, even if you can't afford to, knowing that if we go down it could be the end of the club
Oh, **** off. McNally said there was an extra £10 million this year, so straight away forgetting whatever the extra is on top of, it's more than either of those!
Was talking to a Villa fan at work today about Lambert, he said that Lambert would have 20 mill to spend if/when he becomes their manager, any more than that and he would need to sell...**** knows where he got that from but being a diehard Villa fan I assume he knows more about what's going at his club than me. He also seemed to think that Lambert had a clause in his contract that allowed him to speak to other clubs, and as McNally turned Villa's request to speak to Lambert down, NCFC are now in breach of contract, any truth in that? (It may have been covered in other threads, but I'm not going to trawl through them all...)
Birminghams got good Curry houses so he can stuff face. Holt's really gone down in my books over the past month his managed to show of us all what a selfish egotistical fool he is, look what he done to Drury on one of the biggest nights of his career it was bang out of order, his like a spoilt child. It's blatantly obvious his trying to go to Villa it just proves his another serpent as I say you're either with us or against us.
