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Chazz Rheinhold said:
So the money 100% dictates where you come in the league?
Man U fans celebrating as we speak
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Clearly not.

Point is it's been said many times that because of our January signings we should've finished higher. In reality we missed out to a team with almost twice our wage spending in Norwich and actually overachieved with the resources we had. We thought we could do better and now we're enjoying a nice relegation battle instead. Lessons learned I hope.
 
PLT said:
Clearly not.

Point is it's been said many times that because of our January signings we should've finished higher. In reality we missed out to a team with almost twice our wage spending in Norwich and actually overachieved with the resources we had. We thought we could do better and now we're enjoying a nice relegation battle instead. Lessons learned I hope.
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9th placed budget, 7th placed finish, and there were those saying we underachieved.
 
I dont care whether we overachieved
Underachieved or what

But talking spreadsheets for position is depressing as ****

Made a damn silly joke on here now i get notifications
 
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We'll never have a top 6 budget so we might as well give up now then....

We underachieved in the second half of last season from the position we were in, due to the insistence of playing a woefully under performing GK and an inexperienced manager who was to cautious..... But it's been and gone. We've got this seasons underperformance to worry about now, which is worse
 
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Howdentiger2 said:
We'll never have a top 6 budget so we might as well give up now then....

We underachieved in the second half of last season from the position we were in, due to the insistence of playing a woefully under performing GK and an inexperienced manager who was to cautious..... But it's been and gone. We've got this seasons underperformance to worry about now, which is worse
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No ones saying give up now, but it should be recognised when discussing expectations that others have a significant advantage and we'll have to both overachieve and hope some underachieve at the same time.

It would also be useful to consider when the annual accounts are released, leading to the inevitable panic, that maybe, just maybe we're actually less of a shambles than many of our direct competitors.
 
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Mckechnie Orange said:
No ones saying give up now, but it should be recognised when discussing expectations that others have a significant advantage and we'll have to both overachieve and hope some underachieve at the same time.

It would also be useful to consider when the annual accounts are released, leading to the inevitable panic, that maybe, just maybe we're actually less of a shambles than many of our direct competitors.
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Our year end is 30 June - so nothing released from us for a while.
 
HCAFCHangout said:
Not disagreeing on Zambrano but where do you see the risk?
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The lack of intensity in the Ecuadorian league, the fact he’s not played a minute of professional football since early November, the transfer fee.

He looked tidy on the ball in the few games he did play for us but I just don’t see it as a good investment for a club of our stature. A club like Brighton or Bournemouth could take the risk of buying him and loaning him out to a European club (Brighton’s owner has a stake in Union Saint-Gilloise in Belgium but separate owners so both clubs can play in UEFA competitions should they qualify).

Just don’t think signing both Puerta and Zambrano is good allocation of resources. The club clearly didn’t envision sacking Walter as early as we did and we spent quite a bit of money in January.
 
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PLT said:
Is it? What's the fee?
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Close to £5 million, I think.

I think it’s a moot point anyway. News outlets in Ecuador seem to think we’ve activated his buy clause.

EDIT: it could be lower than that. I’ve seen another source saying $3.5 million with a 30% sell-on clause which isn’t as bad as I initially thought.
 
Mckechnie Orange said:
Interesting to see how prevalent that is.
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Blackburn 30th June

Bristol City 30th June

Burnley 31st July

Cardiff 31st May

Coventry 31st May

Derby 30th June

Hull City 30th June

Leeds 30th June

Luton 30th June

Middlesborough 30th June

Millwall 30th June

Norwich 30th June

Oxford 30th June

Portsmouth 30th June

Plymouth 30th June

Preston 30th June

QPR 31st May

Sheffield United 30th June

Sheffield Wednesday 31st July

Stoke 31st May

Sunderland 31st July

Swansea 31st July

Watford 30th June

West Brom 30th June

I need to get a life sometimes! :emoticon-0107-sweat
 
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