6 goals and 2 assists already in the league.
wouldn't it be nice to have a ball player like that in the midfield.
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6 goals and 2 assists already in the league.
wouldn't it be nice to have a ball player like that in the midfield.
Swift certainly isn't a word I'd use to describe anyone in our midfield.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
He has saved Pauno his job tonight with another stunning free kick plus another assist so that’s 7 goals and 3 assists this season. We have scored 13 goals many of them outstanding (Dele Bashiru’s second tonightt was special) but we have conceded 17.
He's out of contract next summer. We should make a move for him in January.
can see him running his contract down then going to a lower premier League side or a parachute payments side in this division.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
The only reason why Swifty is still playing in the Championship is because of his hamstring injuries. Whether he leaves in January or June I hope it is to a PL club because he is definitely good enough.
Or a serious promotion contender?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
who would a serious promotion contender be, who isn't receiving parachute payments?Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
Could be anyone. We went up without parachute payments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
It seems more difficult these days, the amount of financial disparity between the premier league and the championship seems much bigger today.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
Teams do still do it though, but they tend to have something special about them.
Leeds managed it, but they get massive commercial income, similar in size to a parachute payment.
Brentford managed it by building up over several years with excellent recruitment
Sheffield Utd were tactically innnovative.
We are none of those things
It also seems to me that the teams coming down from the premier league seem better prepared for it than in years gone by, there seems to be less clubs who come down and go into complete disarray like so many have over the years.
First quote identifies that what Brentford did was a process while second quote seems to judge us at a fixed point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I would suggest a) it will be difficult to copy Brentford because of their London location and rule changes following Brexit and b) there's a chance that in a few years (3/4?) time we look back on Neil Harris quotes when he first arrived as a starting point to the process which takes us up.
Admittedly, others will argue that Warnock bringing club together when it was on it's knees and actually taking us up was the start of improvement but think even they'll admit we've stumbled since, and some will say most important change was work Bellamy et al did with our youth but there wasn't a pathway back then so difficult to fully agree with that.