I agree with Mick on this, as long as they haven't done anything untoward then fair play to them - literally. It's a bit unethical I suppose, but not against the rules.
Some people are starting to give up a little on 2nd but there is still a long way to go yet. As for the play offs it will take a massive drop in form for us to stuff that up now. At the worst we will finish in the play offs
It's alright for him not to be bothered, they're at the other end of the table! People saying that Watford are doing nothing wrong and are taking advantage of a loophole are missing the point. No-one is saying action should be taken against Watford, simply that the loophole should be closed in the summer so this doesn't happen again. I didn't even know this was possible until Watford did it, so it's obviously never been a issue before. But we don't want clubs following their example - which is more than possible since it's been a fairly successful one. An argument from defenders of this approach (mainly Watford fans) is that they'll simply find another way around it. But if you were a Udinese striker, would you take the chance of signing on a permanent contract for a second tier English club? Besides, I thought their was a rule now about the number of foreign players in your squad? Failing these things, perhaps their should be a limit on the number of players you can sign from one club. Some people may or may not be aware that currently within the loan system their is a limit on the amount of players you can loan from one club (four and one youth player) which Watford are seemingly able to ignore because Udinese is a foreign club. Hopefully this will be ironed out and then perhaps a similar stance should be taken on permanent transfers. Who buys more than four players from one club anyway unless it's a situation like this one? But for me, the problem is at the root - I don't think any individual, family or consortium should be able to own more than one club. It's a conflict of interests. For all we know, Watford's owners might believe that the Premier League is a more financial lucrative venture that Serie A. This would lead to them bringing across Udinese's best players, effectively leaving the Italian club in the lurch. At a later stage, this could happen to Watford instead. I know that this would be something for FIFA to look at rather than the FA but we could at least prevent it happen at our end. So Watford have got away with this approach this season. Fair play, the system was there to be abused. But it shouldn't happen again.
The system potentially holds alot of power over Watford. (Read this for people who dont know http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4740801/Danny-Graham-Watford-in-the-dock.html) And then their loophole could be closed in the summer. While yes there is ways around it just like their is with the FFP. Its alright bringing in these rules buts its another thing trying to enforce them. Watford have done nothing wrong but their system has failed
I think Watford manipulating the loann system is not as bad as teams like Cardiff, Leicester and Hull who are trying to buy their way out of the league. It pains me to say it, but Palarse are probably the worthiest to go up
So if millwall's owners were billionaires, you would want your club to stay "pure" and not want your owners to spend money to help you go up? your full of it..and you know you are
So you think stealing promotion with players you can't afford is better than, you know, actually paying your way? Typical Millwall fan!
Yes http://www.thisisleicestershire.co....tory-15384845-detail/story.html#axzz2Ldkw83oB When "paying your way" leaves you £50M in debt So dont try to be a smart Gangsta
Palace are obviously worthiest, as long as you ignore the fact that they sold a player for £15m, without him actually leaving and used the money to fund loan deals for a load of(mainly) Premier League players - Ashley Richards (Swansea), Jacob Butterfield (Norwich), Alex Nimely (Man City), Kevin Phillips (Blackpool). And the only team that are actually trying to buy their way out of this league are Blackburn and they're not doing a very good job of it.
You keep loaning players you cant afford Stay within your means with playing like Rob Hulse and Nathan Tyson
That would be true if their net spend was more than Hull or Cardiffs (but it isn't) In fact its nearly £2M less than Hull http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/championship/transferbilanz/wettbewerb_GB2.html
£7.5m? What utter bollocks. Meyler £1.5m, Brady £2m, Proschwitz £1.5m, Quinn £100k = £5.1m(and I think I've overestimated Proschwitz)
I wouldn't pay too much attention to that site if i was you. It guesses at transfer prices and our most expensive transfer in history (Ade Akinbiyi) is not even listed as as a former Leicester player!
It includes the loan fees paid for the Egyptians (£264k each & Stockdale £211k.) Meyler £1,584,000 Brady £2,200,000 Prostwich £2,904,000 (this figure includes agents fee)
TC if it's as easy as going out and spending money you don't have, why not give it a try? Or perhaps you'd like to point out a successful club that isn't in debt?
I was wondering how many of the current crop he had brought in. Whilst with us he brought in Adebola, Simpson and MacLean, none of them turned out to be goalscorers. Obviously he also brought in Fryatt, who many of you don't appear to rate, and Waghorn, for all of five minutes! Maybe, just maybe he has a problem in this area, I know that posters are now gonna yell Chris Wood, but let's face it signing him wasn't rocket science, you'd have to think that he would have scored for any club in the Championship, even Millwall!
Bollocks, you're just making numbers up, our accounts are already out for the period covering Proschwitz's signing and our total spending on fee's and agents fee's(including agents fee's for four free signings and three loan signings) was only £2m.
