Don't anyone realise that ALL teams that stay up will get this £40-50 M !!!!! That means we will be no better off than we are now,in terms of attracting players to Carrow Rd, All the other teams will have exactly the same "pot of gold" I cannot believe how short sighted a lot of people are on this site who think that staying up will be our salvation. With this "pot of gold" available,it will only fuel inflated prices. Teams will up their valuation of players because they know this extra money is there!!! Am I the only one who can see this? (originally posted on another thread)
But surely if a player is on the verge of joining, then has second thoughts or an offer from elsewhere, it would enable us to improve wages to swing any deal? I'm thinking players from overseas, mainly. Plus the extra money could be used to improve the academy facilities/coaching staff, so in 4 or 5 years time, we start to get 'home grown' talent maturing and making the first team grade? I'm sure there are other benefits, such as increasing ground capacity which will become more viable when the new revenue stream kicks in. There are many more, I'm sure
With all due respect Cromer,you are missing the point. If the Govt suddenly gave us all £500 K, would we be better off. On paper YES,but in real terms NO. Same with this "pot of Gold" ALL the teams will have it. NOTHING CHANGES. STATUS QUO.
What is likely to do though is widen the gap between the PL and Championship, unless a club spends all of it when in the PL. A prudent club will go down with substantially more cash than virtually all the Championship teams to rebuild the squad/team.
I kind of get what your saying. The only flaw is that a player is only worth what you are willing to pay for them. Does not matter if I have 10M or 60M if I dont think a player is worth more that 7M I am not going to pay it. The main point for us is surely we will be debt free, so as much funding as possible will go into the transfer budget.
With all due respect, you didn't read a word I said. I specifically said transfers from abroad, not domestically. In fact all three of the potential benefits I used would give us something exclusive, regardless of what other clubs plan to use their Sky money for. If you're talking about a bidding war for say, Curtis Davies, or Danny Graham, then I take your point that the £5m he went for last month may well be £7m just because every club can afford to dig deeper. But that was (deliberately) the reason I didn't mention domestic transfers. There's a lot more to running a successful football club than having 25 superstars signed up!
Quite right. The likes of Liverpool, Spurs etc may spend more because their need to do so to compete for the top 4 places is far greater than ours, Stoke, Baggies etc. and that is up to them. If a mid-table to lower club spend wisely merely to exist in the PL (which is what most realistically do I guess) then they should be okay even if relegated and almost certainly will be financially better off than 95% of the Championship clubs.
Yarco - it's more about not keeping up with the other teams. If we go down this season we don't get that cash and the gap between us and PL gets wider. Extra cash pays for lots more than summer transfers... Academy, bigger scouting network, new stands and stadium facilities, higher wages offered. Frankly it's a huge loss if we miss out on the opportunity to snare an extra 50m this season.
That is precisely the point. If we stay up we may not be better off than our peers in the PL but it would give us a huge financial advantage over championship and overseas teams. I know we didn't get Hooper but the Sky money we get from being Premier League means that little old Norwich with a ground holding less than 30k had £20m+ more income than Celtic with 60k supporters every other week plus Champion's League football last year and so we can bid for their top players rather than have them poach ours. The new Sky deal kicking in will increase this gap.
Its all about improving the infastructure of your club, not competing with Man City in the transfer market. £50M will come in handy, trust me.
i see your point Yarco. it's a complex situation, how much we can develop our squad compared to other clubs, as it depends also on who owns these clubs (that would be around us in the league next season, assuming we are there still) and how money their owners put in, attractiveness of our club to an incoming player, wages etc the fact we have no debt payments next season also helps us. but you are correct, we need to keep our expectations in check really. personally, if we stay up, this close season and what happens to the squad could be the most important in our recent history.
Thank you. That was exactly what I was trying to say earlier on in the piece, but yours was more lucid I mentioned the academy and ground expansion, but I omitted to mention the scouting network, which needs increasing in terms of signing 'undiscovered gems' from abroad - where we won't be in a bidding war cos no other bugger will have heard of them. 11/12 more points can make all this a reality, which is far from assured as things currently stand.
So we stay up this year OK great. Next season we are still in same position financially in relation to other Prem teams. We will still be bidding for players (and it's players that count) from the same position we are today Don't talk about the Academy and improving the ground,the only thing that counts is winning matches, and players win matches.
Don't talk about the Academy and improving the ground,the only thing that counts is winning matches, and players win matches. _____________________________ How incredibly short sighted are you? Ask yourself why you support Norwich, if glory & winning is all you seek, maybe your shirt is the wrong colour.
Right, so you're saying we should relinquish the Cat 1 academy status we've been fighting tooth and nail to achieve? Never produce any more home grown talent?? And leave ground capacity at just over 27,000??? With 2,000 on a waiting list for season tickets???? That's just so pathetic I can't believe I'm even responding to it
Really? If ever one of those annoying head slap were warranted. Wake up yarco, it's not rocket science!
