Think their stay in the Championship will be short lived!
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Think their stay in the Championship will be short lived!
Must have been offered a bucket full of money to stay in Championship, same with Junior?
and of course they will now get a better fee for him when clubs start calling
Stoke seem to be operating as if they weren't relegated - if there's any justice, they'll become another Villa.
That for me is what makes FFP nonsense , you can spend anything as long as your rich , or have a rich benefactor , certainty makes a nonsense out the words fair play , should read RFP Rich Fair Play and hurts those smaller clubs with not so much revenue or crowds trying to improve themselves .
It isn't nonsense. They are going for broke here Stoke and if they don't go up they will have to spend the next 2 years slashing their wage bill. Forest seemed to be doing the same, think they have just shelled out 13m on a Portuguese player.
Its a risky strategy, but it does give you 1 decent shot at promotion every 3 years.
Villa thought they could roll the dice twice and are now paying the price.
Total lack of ambition from him dropping back into the Championship.
Hes one of Wales 3 best, and most important players, and we need him plying his trade in the Premier League.
I'd probably want us to do the same If i'm honest. I think Stoke will go straight back up with that squad. And if they dont, the last two parachute payments should give them enough breathing space to get their finances back under control (assuming they dont do a villa).
So do I, but looking at the positives he will be playing regularly and assuming Stoke have a good season that will benefit his confidence when he links up with Wales.
Perhaps they are trying to do what other teams like Newcastle did, risk the first season trying to bounce back up.
People complain about a lack of loyalty in football nowadays and as soon as a player shows loyalty people are complaining! You can't win!
Middlesbrough had the same strategy last season. Monk spunked £50m to 'guarantee' promotion. It didn't really work that well for them
Next season's championship has a strong West Brom, Boro, Derby, Swansea (they'll be up there), Sheff Weds, Forest and Birmingham will be better. Preston, Norwich and Ipswich are never easy.
Stoke aren't guaranteeing anything
Good on him I say. Nice to see a player sticking it out at their current club for a change. A season in the championship isnt going to do him in any harm either, he will still be class for us and thats all that matters.
I imagine Boro must be sailing pretty close to the wind themselves in terms of FFP. Real pressure on them to go up next season unless they start making some cut backs.
No, we need to keep spending to a minimum this season. Then assuming we get relegated we can go to town next summer assembling a bad ass team in the championship. We could spend another £60m this summer and still go down with our current squad so it would be dangerous for us to go down that path.
Of course we will spend, but only as much as we think we can get away with to give ourselves some sort of a chance of staying up. £50m really doesnt buy you very much at this level and wouldnt make much difference to our chances of avoiding the drop whereas in the championship it would give us two or three bites at automatic promotion so I think it makes sense for us to do what we are doing now and use what little money we are prepared to spend right now on players who can do a really good job for us in the championship and perhaps make the step up to the Prem.
this is the bit i dont get, we dont spend too much this time with the idea that we will have some decent players for the next season in the championship where we will want to get promoted to the place we already are ? ? ? its just crazy talk imho as we will get promoted and have to spend a tidy amount to stay up the next time, we are already at that point
I dont like it anymore than you do but I think we will have more chances of seasons in the premier league this way without getting into trouble with FFP. If we spend big now and dont stay up, our window of opportunity to get promoted in the division below will be smaller. We made a complete mess of it last time and had to spend the next 2 years cost cutting like mad.
I dont think it would do us any harm to become a yo yo club for a while. Eventually we may get lucky and stay up one season and then have a long stint at that level. We are going to need a big chunk of luck to become a settled premier league club.