Apparently it’s not coaches who win games but players, and well paid players tend to be better than the cheap ones. This has been statistically demonstrated, it’s very rare that a manager/coach bucks the £ - the bigger spending clubs do better, whoever the manager is. Success is literally bought for most of the time (there are of course exceptions but these tend to prove the rule).
These are the (estimated) wage spends of this seasons championship clubs.
1. Leicester City – £60,190,000
2. Southampton – £40,014,000
3. Leeds United – £39,513,000
4. Norwich City – £24,196,000
5. West Bromwich Albion – £23,060,000
6. Cardiff City – £19,444,000
7. Stoke City – £18,340,000
8. Watford – £14,952,000
9. Sheffield Wednesday – £14,584,000
10. Middlesbrough – £13,582,000
11. Birmingham City – £13,228,000
12. Bristol City – £12,894,000
13. Hull City – £12,333,200
14. Swansea City – £12,276,000
15. Queens Park Rangers – £12,020,000
16. Ipswich Town – £11,378,000
17. Preston North End – £10,942,200
18. Coventry City – £10,008,000
19. Millwall – £9,856,000
20. Huddersfield Town – £9,258,000
21. Sunderland – £9,150,000
22. Blackburn Rovers – £7,678,000
23. Rotherham United – £6,674,000
24. Plymouth Argyle – £6,060,000
So QPR are underperforming against the £ prediction. But if you only look at the games that Cifuentes has managed, we are at 13 in the table. I think that means, not that Cifuentes is great, but that Ainsworth was ****ing awful. It could also indicate that we are overpaying a bunch of crap players. Personally I think it’s a mix - we had a manager who actively made us a worse team, and lots of players in that team were/are overpaid.
Anyway we were **** tonight, none of them should be paid for that performance.
