Transfer Rumours Summer 2019 Transfer Thread

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TIGERSCAVE said:
What I was getting at BBB was that they were promoted on a budget at a similar time to us, similar attendances and at the time stature.. they were relegated along with us, went back up with us and yet they sustained it, built and amazing training facility, have money in the bank and sold and bought well... there they comparison ends.. that could have been HCAFC .
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They’d had nine years in the championship and went up as a stable club and came straight back down the first time having spent very little. Unlike us who blew it all away by Duffen. But he really got the fans tho, so that’s ok
 
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Billy Big Bollocks. said:
Agree with a lot of that. Up to the KC opening the most we had won was the old 3rd div title in 65/66. We were starved of success for generation after generation and I have been banging this drum most of my life that I don't think there are many clubs in the country who could call on the crowds we attracted with a track record like ours. Our trophy cabinet at Boothferry Park had a tea service in in it given to us by Stoke in 71, the air arrow trophy, a football from a game v Burnley in 1930 and a load of dead wasps and flies. The Allam reign has put more silverware in that cabinet then all the other previous owners added together. However it is bordering on the criminal that we, as a club, failed to build on our time and the cash generated during our brief spells in the Premier League. Clubs like Burnley did.
Turf Moor has never had 55,000 people in it but they do attract a steady crowd, amazing for the size of the town, and the attractions of the much bigger Premier League clubs a few miles down the road. Off the field they have a community programme that involves every young person in the area. They are brought up the Burnley way.
We have the potential but Burnley have the tradition.
We could learn a lot from them.
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Even so, you get the impression that when Dyche goes, it will all go titz there. Surely he will get tired of it ? I've no doubt at all they will decline just like about 80 other clubs.

I remember when Bpool fluked it into the prem in 2010, all the wise ****s on here praised Hollowhead and Oyston and lamented the fact that we weren't more like the wise spendthrift Tangerines with their bikeshed of a new stand opposite the cameras.

Then we had the Sjoke love in (bankrolled by Peter Coates) with their cauldron of noise and the wily Pulis, then they got above their station, demanded 'sexy football' and as Phil Collins might say 'Well take a look at me now' a fickle and dwindling fanbase, the team going nowhere.

Happens to nearly all clubs
 
gtigerbackin hull said:
Regarding the sale of Bowen, it will not be today.
At 3 pm I was picking our cat up from the Cattery at Leconfield, Bowen and his girlfriend were also collecting their cat.
I asked if they had enjoyed Marbella , they said Yes they had. I then asked if he was leaving City anytime soon, his girlfriend smiled and said nothing.
You heard it here first, no inside info' at all.
Thought you might like to know that he is a Cat lover. UTT.
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I have a funny feline he might be staying
 
TIGERSCAVE said:
What I was getting at BBB was that they were promoted on a budget at a similar time to us, similar attendances and at the time stature.. they were relegated along with us, went back up with us and yet they sustained it, built and amazing training facility, have money in the bank and sold and bought well... there they comparison ends.. that could have been HCAFC .
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And I said I agree with most of your post. Burnley are the blue print for most medium sized clubs to follow. As Cityman says it all could come tumbling down for them too at any time but the difference between us and them and our time in the Premier League is that they invested in bricks and mortar and a proper training ground and facilities which they own and a community programme that is heralded as one of the best in the Premier League.
 
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