Agree with FML on footballing grounds: NCFC, Leeds and Sheffield United have been a cut above the rest of the division. With the cold, hard logic of Premier League survival, you'd probably want it to be Sheffield United and Preston. Leeds, WBA or Villa would have larger transfer budgets, and I suspect Bristol could find some more money from their owner if they went up. Do Derby have wealthy owners? Being overshadowed by Frank Lampard's Promotion-winning Derby County (TM) could be quite handy.
Derby is in the process of being sold if the current owner can find a buyer. Strange, I haven't seen any comments on here for months re 'Delia out!!'
Oh yeah, I see what you mean. I didn’t think of it like that. I don’t care who goes up as long as we did. Just want to bank those millions to save our club and not have to make 2-3 massive sales just to not go under!
This this this all day long. Much as we are playing well, we are not a fully stable championship club yet. The premier money spent wisely could protect us for decades to come, if we dont get pulled into the gamble of big money spending in the big leagues. Even if we get relegated next year, if we came down with a modest wage bill like we have currently (without Naismith!), Think what we could do to improve the club with parachute payments and the cash left over from the premier.
It sounds like this really will be the approach. Maybe spend £20m on 3-4 players to challenge the first team, a couple of fringe/academy signings and plough everything else into building sustainably. The noises from Carrow Road make it sound like they're very much focused on the future.
I really hope so. Never again has to be our mantra. We aren't a big money club, and we aren't about to become one any time soon. But we have a great community, a loyal fan base, a commitment to developing young players, and a desire to play interesting attacking football. If we can develop our youth set up, continue to build the club out into the community, invest in more capacity for more fans to get to watch the team, stay true to the football we want to play and have faith in players who have given so much to the club, I don't care if it's premier/champ/or league one.
Yes I know Spurs have a much larger budget than we do, but it is effectively how they were able to close in on the top 4 mega monies. Buy low, sell high!
Exactly. Although a real money earner for them now is corporate hospitality and sponsorship. That makes more than what ticket sales and merch does together. Being in london undoubtedly helps that, and we will never have quite the same geographical draw, but we do have two Nandos, and thats a start.
Our priority should be to keep the club structure together to implement long term development. The transformation this year is no accident, but the product of careful planning, excellent scouting, and top class coaching which will serve us well in the PL. The football we're playing is already well suited to the PL and 3-4 additional players will push that further.
So looking as though Fulham have joined Huddersfield in being relegated. Cardiff play Burnley a week Saturday. #RelegationSixPointer
Very true. It's not so much about just quality, but rather desire, determination and working hard for each other. That's what we have in abundance.
I can't see that's what we will do if we go up, we've got a pretty solid squad capable of stepping up, think we will just get 2 or 3 in to strengthen.
I wouldn’t call that losing. It’s more a timing problem, where their goal has preceded the first of our three. Probably.
