I know there will be complications but I really do think the transfer window needs to be closed when the season kicks off, it just unsettles players and you really need a settled team from the get go.
I'm not going to reply to anyone in particular. but Johnson class in the championship. fairly good in the prem?! ...Well that's what we need. More that one player. You think Dorrans is much better than Johnson? No! They are at least the same, I'd go for Johnson as he knows the area and club.Basically Dorrans was an AN signing. That's the only reason. The Thing that pisses me off is they are 2 very different midfielders. I would have loved to see both sit in midfield. I think this is classic "manager stamping himself on the team".... I still cant believe he did that though.
Really have to wonder about the quality of our recruitment staff. Yes Mbokani possibly good signing but still a risk presumably work permit is OK but no PL experience so still a gamble (ok not as big as RvW because it's a loan) still a gamble insofar as we need to stay up. Very worried about Grabban, not the greatest player and possibly toxic wrt the rest of the squad. We'll never know if BJ could've repeated last season now have to file that under who knows. Have we really got enough depth in key areas now? Midfield yes lots of cover but elsewhere, I'm not so sure look how vulnerable we are without Ollson...
Seems there is stuff going on behind closed doors, a couple of defeats and AN, for all the Glaswegian scoulling, will look like a rabbit in the headlights, aka Neil Adams. Big test for him now
He'll be off January now no question, how anyone can still support this board after this ****ing debacle is beyond me. Totally unbelievable, it just beggars belief !
Well that was a catastrophic transfer window... Norwich have done the impossible and actually weakened their team after having been promoted. Remember the playoff final...the "£130m game"? What a complete joke! This window has now closed and Norwich have a net spend of £4m!!! Add to that we sell our best player to a bloody Championship side!!! This is the side we've let go, an entire team and a half: 1) Bunn 2) Cuellar 3) Turner 4) Miquel 5) Garrido 6) Murphy 7) Andreu 8) Vadis 9) Johnson 10) Murphy 11) Van Wolfswinkel 12) Matthews 13) McGeehan 14) McFadden 15) Morris: What the hell do the board think they are doing sitting on close to £40-60m? Throw in the parachute payments from 2013-14 still flowing through (c.£15m per season). Wages...highly unlikely given we have a cap of c.£30k per week. Debt...none left so no interest payments. Relegation here we come. #sackMcNally
So looks like our 25 man squad will be: Ruddy, Rudd, Keane Whittaker, Wisdom, Martin, Bassong, Olsson, Ryben Brady, Howson, Hoolahan, Tettey, Mulumbu, Dorrans, Jarvis, Vadis Mbokani, Jerome, Grabban Which is 20. Plus Redmond and Toffolo who are underage. Then Hooper, Elliott Bennett, Lafferty, Loza(?) who are all clearly fringe players and unwanted.
You do realise the parachute payments from 13/14 stopped when we got promoted right? and the £120m is at the end of this year at the earliest?
Just to point a couple of things out: -When we got promotion we lost out on those parachute payments, ironically they went to the other Prem sides. -Mulumbu is supposedly on £42k p/w and Hooper £32k, so not sure that cap is an accurate figure.
Is that new? Sorry, didn't catch it if it wasn't. Even worse in case none of you had seen this...http://www.skysports.com/football/n...-overhauled-for-promoted-premier-league-clubs "Promoted clubs who are relegated after just a single year in the Premier League will no longer benefit from full parachute payments from the 2016/17 season. The change in the rules means that promoted clubs Bournemouth, Watford and Norwich will miss out on a year of parachute payments if they go straight back down. The parachute payments system is also changing so that the money - at least £64m but likely higher - will be distributed to relegated clubs over three years rather than four. Clubs who go back down after a single year in the Premier League will only get the first two years of payments rather than the full three years".
It's still chicken feed for PL clubs...just saying that our wage bill is hardly massive compared to other clubs. In the 2013-14 annual report and accounts, it says a figure of 40% turnover.
What?! Is this true!?...........It's already pathetic teams like Bournemouth or Norwich against Man City or Chelsea! So they want to make it even easier to the bigger ritch teams, so no other teams can compete for the top 4! That's is such a ridiculous idea
I dunno - I can't figure out if my glass is half full or half empty. On one hand we've weeded out some chaff, leaving a smaller but arguably more playable squad. We sold BJ for some significant wedge, albeit a bit late to be able to use it. Although this and the rest of the kitty will be useful in January. On the other hand, BJ had only recently got an almost talismanic following and it seems strange to sell a player who bled green and yellow enough to merit more of a crack at the Prem than he got so far. Time will tell what the reasoning was and how effective it will be.
6 of the 15 are only on loan and every one of the other 9 would have had a question mark over how much they would contribute this season, including Johnson.
I remember shortly after that magnificent win at Wembley, the boss saying he'd stick largely with the team that got them promoted. Well, Bradders - as well as Whittaker, Martin, Tettey etc got them relegated. And stayed put and got them straight back up. Awesome. And today is his 'reward' for busting a gut for the yellow shirt.
