If you lot were to give us £4million I would snap your hands off!! Hopefully then we would get someone like Keiron Westwood
Ah, Yes, the BIG club overpaying for players from a smaller club syndrome. Sorry, but we're not a charity.
AKCJ .. you don't realise yet but next season you really do need the money .. FFP comes into play meaning "big" clubs like you cannot spend what you don't earn and any overhead or debt can end up in pts deductions .. that's why it was imperative that teams went up this year ... enjoy
No. I love Bruce, but we're starting to exaggerate his prowess a bit I think. People aren't going to join us over a better side because SB is our manager. If it's between us and Swansea and player would pick Swansea and rightly so. Oh and why is everyone comparing Bruce to Pearson here? We all know Pearson's a silly ****, no one has suggested he isn't. AKCJ just questioned the ridiculous notion that we'd attract players ahead of a bigger club like Swansea. He wasn't saying Leicester or Pearson would be more of a pull than us.
What would make Bruce have greater pulling power than Laudrup anyway? As for Swansea being a 'bigger club' I don't want to spark the age old debate of what defines a 'big' or 'small' club but I'd say Swansea are fairly similar to us in that they've been **** and then done brilliantly in the last 10 years or so. I'd say the reason they are a more attractive proposition than us is simply that they have a better team and a better chance of staying up, nothing to do with club size.
They're a bigger club because they'll be playing in Europe next season and have stayed up two years in a row while we are newly-promoted. History doesn't come into it.
Are you sure you're not mixing up club size and club standing, or in your mind are they the same thing?
History doesn't come into it. Don't be daft. Are you saying that Manchester City are a bigger Club than either Arsenal or Liverpool???
Yes. I've never understood this popular perception of the term 'size' which basically just means how many trophies you've won. It's bullshit, totally irrelevant. It's nice for Liverpool fans to remember when they won stuff, for example, but would it tempt a player to join them over Man City? Of course it wouldn't. Former glories are irrelevant to everyone but the fans, and that's the way it should be. EDIT for Strov: Yes.
Then you're mad. In that case you also think QPR are a bigger club than Leeds United. And who says players decide what club size is, or for that matter that they care? You can't generalise about these things which is why 'size' is such a pointless thing to argue about, it's like arguing which is the better colour, green or blue.
Agreed. Which is why I avoid all this talk of size based on perceived 'history' and prefer to talk about the football and the here and now, which is why Man City are one of the biggest clubs in the country and Swansea are bigger than us.
Who cares about this big club small club nonsense. This is sports, its only about what you have done lately. Half the clubs people say are big clubs havent done **** in years. Like Leeds for instance.
You suggest that the size of your club is based on the current league standing and that alone. Therefore Newcastle were one of the biggest clubs last year, but aren't anymore and last year Man City was a bigger club than Man Utd but they aren't this year. That's rubbish. There's a lot more that decides the 'big' clubs, Trophies, history, fan base, possible growth, current league, turnover, staff, facilities and many more. To suggest it who has done better in the current season is ignorant.
Why you laughing, the new financial rules come into play next season and you as a club are way the wrong side of them. Therefore the man is right you need the money.
