2020VisionofLeeds
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Unfortunately I don't think we are in a position to choose how we get promoted....
If I want to choose, I'll choose. Probably won't happen anyway
Unfortunately I don't think we are in a position to choose how we get promoted....
Thank heavens we escaped that fate
Not sure about teams already in the Prem, but Hull City's team - Brady £2M Myler £1.5M Zayatte £2.5M Simpson £1.2M Hobbs £850K Proswich £2.5M Evans £500K Fryatt £1.2M Olofinjana £3M - That's over £15M already![]()
Thats not the point I'm making anyway, the money has to be spent wisely
Half them players aren't even in this team anyway and were signed ages ago (two of them whilst in the Premier League).Not sure about teams already in the Prem, but Hull City's team - Brady £2M Myler £1.5M Zayatte £2.5M Simpson £1.2M Hobbs £850K Proswich £2.5M Evans £500K Fryatt £1.2M Olofinjana £3M - That's over £15M already![]()


Shrewed purchases there, especially Aluko, unbelievable....
Agreed, of course you can give the wrong manager money and have a disaster. Anjd occasionally a manager makes a silk purse out of a sows ear.
Though if you look at the trends oper several seasons, of net sellers and net spenders (guess which we are, every year) you find there is a good correlation between net spend and success. Is it exact or isomorphic (one to one and onto), no. But theres a good statistical correlation.


Totally irrelevant considering that's over 5 years.http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/championship/transferentwicklung/wettbewerb_GB2.html
Net spend this season
Suprise suprise Biggest spenders Cardiff 2nd Hull City - The table doesn't lie
Well Candy?
Other players I think would do well
Macartney from Reading in goal
Adam Smith from Spurs
Perkins from BarnsleyI would build the team around him
Chris Taylor from Millwall
Sharp from Saints to feed off Matt Smith from Oldham
He played at right and left back for us Aide
Totally irrelevant considering that's over 5 years.
I know we've probably spent more than most teams, but you were throwing in players signed years ago into it. I mean ****ing hell, Kamill Zayatte was signed back in 2008/09, and Olofinjana back in 2009/10 during our last Premier League stint. They've hardly accounted to us 'buying Promotion' have they? Since as in they got us relegated...
Those on my previous post are the ones we've signed this Season. This Season, we haven't exactly spent shedloads to earn promotion, as you are trying to imply. I sense envy TC? What was it like having Wood leave and see Millwall drop down the League like a stone whilst the other superior Championship sides brush you aside?
Cardiff spent the most and Hull spent 2nd most. You may not have spent "shedloads", but you spent £2M more than the next highest spender (Blackburn) and £5M more than EVERYONE else 
Half them players aren't even in this team anyway and were signed ages ago (two of them whilst in the Premier League).
Zayatte and Olofinjana were signed in the Premier League.
Simpson, Fryatt, Hobbs and Evans were signed either last Season (not the one just finished) or the one before.
This Season, we signed:
Alex Bruce (Free from Leeds United)
Abdoulaye Faye (Free from West Ham)
David Stockdale (Loan from Fulham)
Ben Amos (Loan from Manchester United)
Ahmed Elmohamady (Loan from Sunderland)
Quinn (£2,000 per game to Sheffield United up to £150,000)
David Meyler (£1.5m from Sunderland)
Robbie Brady (£2m from Manchester United)
Sone Aluko (Free from Rangers)
Nick Proschwitz (£1.5m initial fee, rising up to £2.5m with appearance/goals installments from SC Paderborn)
So that's only between £5m - £6.5m this Season. Not as much as you're trying to make out...![]()

You forgot to include Fathi & Gedo![]()
TC (Lovely Geezer) said:I'm talking this year Cardiff spent the most and Hull spent 2nd most. You may not have spent "shedloads", but you spent £2M more than the next highest spender (Blackburn) and £5M more than EVERYONE else