Championship thread 24/25! (3 Viewers)
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Sky Blue Harry H
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Other than us, look at some who have splashed the cash - Leeds, Sheff Utd, Luton, Burnley, Stoke, Norwich, Bristol City, West Brom - I could add more to the list, but they can't all get there.
QPR, Sunderland, Watford will also have aspirations - The Championship is a really tough league, where teams will all take points off each other. Luton will have had less upheaval than most (players and management), so expect them to be thereabouts. The rest is difficult to call, until the PL loans and other transfers have finished. I do hate the parachute payments that skew the odds though. Nothing against C O'H, but really do not want Sheff Utd get promoted (and want Gus to leave).
mmttww
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Who are you worried we're missing out on? If it's forwards, we've got seven already incl. Tavares and Obikwu. If we start the season with who we've got we're in a good spot.
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Sky Blue Harry H
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It's mad
If you read recent comments/speculation re: Sunderland players....
Lens interested in Dan Ballard (Sunderland value him at least £20m
Jobe Bellingham - rated £20m ....wanted? by Palace, Lazio interested?!
Jack Clarke - on their forum, they value him north of £25m
All played regularly last season for Sunderland, who finished.... 16th
The Cartel is in overdrive!
SkyBlue_Bear83
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Not that we've missed out on any particular players, I meant worried we've missed our chance to get promoted with losing to Luton and not getting promoted last season.
Predicting a lot more competitive league as many more teams will have money to strengthen. It's a bit disappointing looking back now that we got £35 million for the leagues two best players and Hull are getting that now for slightly above average championship players.
Matt smith
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Philogene isn’t a slightly above average champ
Player
Sky Blue Harry H
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Callum Doyle - season long loan to Norwich. Had a bit of a nomad career so far, with all these loans.
skyblueelephant76
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Bristol City and Stoke have now apparently agreed £2.5m fees for Sinclair Armstrong of QPR.
TomRad85
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David O'Day
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Big bloke who doesn't score? Well up their street?
Skybluedownunder
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Hopefully got bags of money to buy Palmer
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skyblueelephant76
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Villa had a 30% sell on clause so effectively got him cheaper than any of the other bids
ccfcchris
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Championship 24/25: New managers, key transfers and more
As always with the Sky Bet Championship, there has been an awful lot of change this summer, some that might have gone under the radar given the focus on Euro 2024.
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Ccfcisparks
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Not championship related but blues are really going for it this year.
spent nearly 10mil already
spent nearly 10mil already
TomRad85
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Pretty sure FFP will want a word if they don't start selling.
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Brighton Sky Blue
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They seem to be taking a common approach of just ignoring those rules and hoping they get promoted or whatever they want before the sanction hits, by which point it's meaningless.
TomRad85
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Maybe worth a go if you're one promotion away from the Prem. In league 1 however...
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Sky Blue Harry H
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Didn't think FFP applied in League 1 ?
TomRad85
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Applies in all 4 divisions I'm pretty sure. Can't see why it wouldn't.
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Sky Blue Harry H
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Fair enough - thought I'd seen/read it somewhere. Must have been one of my weird dreams (I have many!)
SeaSeeEffCee
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That's mental for League One.
Sky Blue Harry H
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Financial Fair play: Does it apply in League One and League Two?
All the information you need about wage budgets ahead of the January transfer window
Not sure if this is still up to date?!
Telfer85
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It’s different in league 1 and league 2 they can spend a percentage of their turnover on wages think it’s around 60%. So they aren’t looking at transfer fees when it comes to ffp in those leagues. Plus relegated clubs from the champ can exclude players from that calculation they signed before the relegation season.
So they are in a strong position.
skyblueelephant76
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TomRad85
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Are transfer fees not player related expenditure?
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skyblueelephant76
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It means player salaries not admin staff salaries. Nothing to do with fees
TomRad85
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OK fair enough I wasn't aware of this. So in theory if you can convince players to come you could build a better team in league 1 than in the Championship if you have someone funding it?
Very strange.
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SeaSeeEffCee
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Wrexham and Birmingham should walk the league with those spending rules.
skyblueelephant76
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You've still got to manage to keep wages to 60% of turnover so you'd need to be generating a lot of income.
TomRad85
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Yeh I get that too and I'd imagine their wage bill is pretty high so probably still need to watch out. They could probably sell Jordan James and cover all their spending tbf.
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Sky Blue Harry H
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Sheffield United about to sign Harrison Burrows - having signed Sam McCallum. A bit odd. as one of them will soon be p*ssed off (probably Sam McC) Not sure about Burrows defensively, but his crossing is meant to be good, so could work well with Keiffer Moore. Anyway, enough about that team.
robbiethemole
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lots of hoof up to Moore, O'Hare not getting a sniff on the deck