Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
Once again, conversation seems to centre around us having just the two extremes to work towards - spend along the lines we did in the summer of 2013 (relatively speaking that would probably equate to about £70-80 million these days) and the modest, by Premier League standards, spending we saw this summer. Neil Warnock has said on more than one occasion that our budget is about half of Huddersfield's (we haven't spent as much as they did last summer either) - Huddersfield and Burnley are often held up as two examples we should follow, but, in essence, we aren't because we are trying to survive by spending less than them.
I've always argued that there is a middle way by which we could have spent something like £10 to £15 million more in transfer fees if wages were controlled in the same way as Burnley appear to have done. There is the possibility of course that we do have this money to spend and we're hanging on until January so spend it, but that is a very risky strategy if you ask me, because the lack of squad depth exposed by Tuesday's game has me considering the prospect that we could be virtually tailed off by then, with the chance that no one of the standard we would require would be willing to come to a club that was, almost certainly, going down.