Ryan Giles has gone to Hull

[Tuerto]

Re: Ryan Giles has gone to Hull

Giles lost eight on the trot when he was last here, why would he have wanted to come back?

Money.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Ryan Giles has gone to Hull

He's got 22 assists in the Championship, 9 of them were here. He played well, even if nobody else did.

I wouldn’t have thought it’s an experience he’ll remember with much enthusiasm, my point is that City would be pretty low in any list of Giles’ preferred options I’d have thought.

[TWGL1]

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Coventry sold two players for a combined fee of around £30 million in the summer, they’re probably doing better than breaking even with their transfer dealings.

Good point about that net spend

https://salarysport.com/football/coventry-city/transfers/

City on the other hand

https://salarysport.com/football/cardiff-city/transfers/

[PontBlue]

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They are investing but I guess the test is how they cope if they don’t go up soon.

Surely they've got to be close to breaking financial fair play regs

[the other bob wilson]

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Surely they've got to be close to breaking financial fair play regs

Definitely in their last two seasons I'd say and I can't think of any balance the books type sales off the top of my head during that time either.

Rosenior has a very good reputation within the game, but I'd say that, for the money they've spent, Hull could be viewed as under performing so far this season.

[ccfcwelshlad]

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I wouldn’t have thought it’s an experience he’ll remember with much enthusiasm, my point is that City would be pretty low in any list of Giles’ preferred options I’d have thought.

From football perspective agree Bob, but he apparently really enjoyed his time here and is still in touch with a number of our players. His and KM partners both really close still and I suspect if Kieffer was here it'd be even more of a pull. However, we were never going to be in a position to match a loan with a mandatory purchase at the end.

[LA Bluebird]

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The relegated teams are established Premier League teams and have the strongest squads and are getting stronger as the season goes on, they should be promoted but as we know the playoff team could slip up.

Increasingly this will become the case every year, the gulf between the Prem and Champ will just continue to grow. Assuming the bottom 3 go down - Luton maybe not but the other two have been in the Prem over the last 10 years for long enough to be at a different financial level.

Good on them for giving it a go, certainly some great championship signings but I’d imagine they are more likely getting points deducted and in league 1 in a few years than in the Prem.