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I'll say it again, since you seem to be a completely dense plank of wood, our players are Premier League players. You can throw your toys out of the pram and cry all you like. But they are officially Premier League players playing for a Premier League team.
If that's not the case next season, so be it, but currently you're going to have to deal with it, you sausage.
Obviously nobody can predict the future, but you can have an educated guess given what you’ve got to go on. Fulham have gambled, but I think they will stay up comfortably.
I so want to be wrong about us and have it shoved down my throat if we stay up, but I see absolutely nothing but certain relegation with this squad.
Not sure as it doesn't include the rest of the players salaries, etc. I'm assuming that we're budgetting on spending the whole TV income and hoping to reduce debts with anything else we bring in on top of that. Don't forget Madine would have cost us another few million once we were promoted, and I'm sure there are other outgoings still hanging over us.
There is no doubt we are aiming to make a profit from this season though, and I don't blame VT at all for trying to reduce some of the debt we owe him. Let's just hope we've got the balance right.
Other clubs will have more lucrative revenue streams than ours e.g. catering, shirt sales, stadium naming rights, etc but I'm still intrigued as to where Wolves and Fulham are going to get their income from. If they've both spent around £100M on transfers and likely another £80 - £100M on wages then I guess they're amortising this over a number of years to try and keep outgoings to around £130 - 150M/year. Still raises huge questions re FFP...
We are not a small club. Morecambe and Stevenage are examples of small clubs, we are a medium-size club, I would say bigger than 5-6 other current Premier League teams.
There's too many people saying that we'll be in a strong position if we were to go down. The only problem there is, that in the process of getting relegated, certain players will have had their reputations damaged beyond repair, other players will have had their confidence knocked out of them, they won't be the same players they were last time in the Championship. Those players were the ones who fought tooth & nail to get us into the Premier League in the first place, naturally, they wanted to test themselves against the best, however, they'll know themselves that they're simply not Premier League standard, therefore, how could they motivate themselves to give it another go knowing they'd be discarded if we did get back to the top flight?
If we get relegated, and of course I hope that doesn't happen, Warnock would have to stand down (that's if he hadn't already been sacked). There would be no way forward for him with us in the Championship. Even if he did the unthinkable and got us promoted a second time (his 9th promotion?) he'd be viewed as damaged goods for the Premier League and there would be little faith that he could improve upon previous stints there.
As for "enjoying the ride" ... there's not a team in Premier League history whose fans have enjoyed the experience of relegation - our fans will be no different and why should they be?
If we'd signed Jon Walters I'd be moaning more
No one enjoys relegation but we are 3 games in and some are already raising the white flag and panicking.
The next 3 games are the sort of match ups I would have loved to have seen us have as a kid. The sort of matches many clubs fans dream of for one offs in the FA Cup. Some clubs stay in league 1 or 2 for 15 years with little excitement. I think whatever has happened over the last 20 years I've hardly been bored.
I don't see why we can't upset some of the bigger teams and really why we can't stay up.
If people can't enjoy the season in the top flight because we don't have as good a team as others then I'm not sure what enjoyment they would get from following this club. Maybe better if next time we are lucky enough to get promotion we just say no thanks give it to Bristol city.
I would add that if we go down, any players who do well in the Premier League this season will, almost certainly, not be at the club for 18/19.
I agree with you about "enjoying the ride", let's see how many are saying that in March if the season is going as badly as most pundits think it will.
You're right to be positive but there is a question mark hanging over our pre-season preparation. Bournemouth for instance had played against senior level teams in theirs, while we were playing village teams. That's no way to prepare for life in the Prem. Maybe what we're seeing now is the pre-season we should have had so things will improve once they're over the hump. Bring it on anyway.
Wolves did post a profit recently, the only team in the Champ to do so I believe, and have been checked out by the EFL who say there's no problem with their spending. If we can make a healthy profit this season then we'll get FFP off our backs for a good while at least and even if relegated will be in good shape and competitive to do it again. Last thing we want but the future security of the club must come before the Prem.