Reply With QuoteWe have spent that money on poor players tooOriginally Posted by ninian opinian
We may as well have spent nothing
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Us £665k. Burnley £38.2 million.
Details in article (link below).
https://the72.co.uk/2023/02/08/how-m...t-this-season/
No wonder Burnley are running away with the league.
We have spent that money on poor players too
We may as well have spent nothing
Is that net spend or have Burnley actually spent that amount? Did they sell a few? A bet their mgt team cost more in wages than our entire squad…..
Don't worry we could have pissed away 30 million on new players and still be where we are.
How've they got to that conclusion then? Etete was pretty widely reported as £500k and Tanner £50k. So apparently Robinson only cost us £115k?
I don't believe that West Brom sold a 27 year old striker with 7 goals and 9 assists last season for that little.
Figures from transfermarkt
Looking at their site they have Etete and Tanner reported prices but only a ? next to Robinson, possibly because undisclosed.
"As the Championship grows in popularity and quality..." Hmmmm.
but re. Burnley the model seems to be spend big when you're relegated to get back as quick as possible.
pointless if it doesn't include undisclosed fees
The Callum Robinson fee is officially 'undisclosed' but was widely reported as £1.5m when he signed.
Or signing on fees and agents fees. Total waste of time.
Something we got spectacularly wrong
Oddly we seemed to build a team for the Championship to compete in the Premier League almost in expectation of being relegated. Some of our signings were just odd and Warnock didn't seem keen on some of them. Decordova-Reid being one of them.
Clubs don't have to report transfer fee's, they only have to declare totals to the tax man. Why do people get so worked up about it.
Burnley raked in loads of coin this summer, also let loads of high earners go whose contract expired and also clocked a reportedly large loan fee for the striker at Man U. Chalk and cheese us and them.
Burnley's net spend is the lowest in the Championship. They made £70m from player sales last summer.
And have a decent manager in place when attempting to get back into the Premier League. I shudder when I think of who we had in charge after our last two seasons in the prem
The Championship has been ruined by the parachute payments. It’s not remotely a level playing field. For the likes of Cardiff and Reading it’s now becoming incredibly difficult to do much more than survive in the division.
We bloody had parachute payments, every jumpers nightmare though, the bugger failed to open.
Our terrible use of parachute payments is more akin to it opening and then the jumper proceeding to stab holes in it
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