Transfer's 'Most Difficult in Championship History'

It reads like a personal memo, which is never a good idea when writing articles.
Generally though, young Jonno seems a bouncy, positive sort of chap, and has a bit of steel to him also. He knows what he wants and expects a return on the club's money from his players.
Ultimately he will be judged a success or failure by what his team achieves

 

To be honest there isn't much in there we didn't already know.
SLs millions didn't tempt Gray or Gayle to come to us - Gray opted for Burnley and is now playing in the prem and Gayle now plays for a massive club tipped to bounce straight back to the Prem, scoring their winner with their only shot on target - as if to rub it in our faces.

It IS more difficult for us than those clubs fresh from the Premiership yes - and the wages are ridiculous.
It's a fair point made about Barnsley etc - but with all due respect to those clubs, their ambitions are probably to avoid relegation whereas ours (as stated on numerous occasions by SL et all) is to play in the premiership.

 

Get on with it you let Ayling go over Little bad decision MOM at Leeds Saturday and the Leeds fans are very happy with him.

You need a quality striker and right back and another centre half.

If we are serious then this is a priority.

We had the third biggest crowd in the championship Saturday,if we want to keep 22000 plus coming through the gates we need to be in the top 10 all season.

Get on with it boys and keep the feel good factor going.

Jordan Rhodes would be a massive statement of intent.

 

Have you actually sat down and worked out how many season tickets extra we would need to sell just to pay Jordan Rhodes wages? Or are you just hoping Lansdown pays for it out of his personal wealth along with the 48 million pound upgrade on the stadium. Or are you going to accept an £100-£200 increase on your ticket?

As to how the others are doing? Probably their managers are saying the same to their fans, just we don't read it.

 

Errrrrrr 3000 extra pay on the day at £25.00 is £75.000 don't take much to see where the money would come from if we were right up there ROD.
Speculate to accumulate i say.
Never been a better time to go for it.

 

Junior couldn't have known about Matthews hamstring.
He thought Matthews was better than Ayling, don't we all, and £750,000 looked a great deal for City.
Unfair to say Junior was wrong at the time to sell Ayling.

Correct to say we need 2 or 3 signings to achieve, hopefully, a mid table finish.

 

The way I see it, spend it now for us to feature in the play-off shake-up. Spend it in January to keep us in the division
By the way, I am sure its not so simple as that.
For a start, the players have to want to come to City, bearing in mind we are still establishing ourselves in the Championship and there were times last season when we weren't even sure which division we would be in this time around.
Rhodes will want a B-line to the Premiership, because he has a handful of years to make his mark and the place to do that is where it counts

 

Rickster,
I'd spend it now to keep us in the division.
Harder to get good players in January if we're in bottom 3.

 

Stadium, owner, and War Chest aside, players will be attracted to clubs that they believe will be in with a chance of achieving something with.

For the foreseeable future that situation has us on the back foot.

 

Well done dick, you've totally miscalculated. You've only based it on 23 home games when footballers get paid 52 weeks a year. Plus there is no guarantee that an extra 3000 will turn up for one player. So you've covered £33k of his wages (he is rumoured to be on 50k a week) on a gamble without thinking what the others will think of him being on that wage compared to them.
And your a car salesman

 

he is rumoured to be on 50k a week) on a gamble without thinking what the others will think of him being on that wage compared to them.

What about Tomlins reported £1m signing on fee ?

Any major disparity in wages or other perks will cause dissatisfaction or unrest with certain players who are on less, but they need to bite the bullet or move on.

 

Not one player ROD,i am talking about a side in the mix and gunning for promotion that is what the club needs to be doing.
Car Salesman no i am MD of a company that has a car sales division,within the business plus a number of other activities going on within the business.

 

Car cleaner then

 

Shhhhhhh keep it quite please

 

But RR, on the 'So it looks like we are going with no new strikers' thread, you said we were '100% ready to rumble' after the Abraham signing:

http://www.not606.com/threads/so-it-looks-like-we-are-going-with-no-new-strikers.333178/page-3

Granted, Ayling has since left and Matthews got injured, but a lack of depth at right back suddenly means three more players are required? No shame in saying you jumped the gun before if you've changed your mind.

Hindsight makes fools of us all at some point, and Ayling's sale wouldn't be much of an issue without Matthew's injury. I haven't read much about the circumstances of the move, but if the player himself was agitating for it because he'd rather be a starter for Leeds than behind Matthews here, then that'd be understandable. I don't know if we'll make any more signings that will go straight into the 1st eleven, with squad players maybe more likely.

Going back to the article, I think the headline has somewhat sensationalised LJ's comments. He's clearly said that he's pleased with the business so far, that he's not complaining and is grateful, but it's fair to say that with the various factors like increased money at this tier inflating prices/wages and the scrapping of the emergency loan window, that signing players for realistic sums is/has been challenging. It doesn't seem like excuse making to me.

Let's wait until at least 10 games in before making strong observations. Obviously, if there are plans to get more players in, then time is running out and action needs to happen, but the club has done excellently so far, so give them the benefit of the doubt to continue that.

 

There seems to be a negative tone to this thread, no doubt instigated by 2 narrow defeats against recently Premiership sides whose players were regularly faced by such forces as Chelsea, Man City etc just a few months ago.
Maybe we won't develop into a side that hits the top 2, but i'd still bet we end up in the top 10. Or even the Play-offs when anything can happen,
so maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves here.

Don't forget, last season we were having visions of a quick return to div 1

 

After the joy of a couple of league wins and success in the League Cup at Wycombe, I think a few people have now realised the size of the task ahead of us to mentally and physically get the club to a stage where we are able to compete with the likes of Newcastle, Norwich and the other pace setters.

I can't see it being a quick job.

This league will take no prisoners and it wouldn't surprise me to see teams relegated next May with 50 points plus.

There are no easy games, and no foregone conclusions. We have to fight HARD for every point.