Major Tom
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Its great to see Ipswich bucking the trend.. But whoever comes down will be taking at least 1 auto and 2 of the play off places .. the battle will be for the remaining 3 places for the foreseeable.
Its great to see Ipswich bucking the trend.. But whoever comes down will be taking at least 1 auto and 2 of the play off places .. the battle will be for the remaining 3 places for the foreseeable.Sheffield won’t be the same team when they come down - change of management and some poor purchases including Gus who needed a team around him BUT they will get full parachute payments which make it so bloody unfair - let’s see how we get on against Wolves
I would love my boy to see the top flight players for at least one season .. there are a generation or two of young Cov fans who have only watched the premier league on TV and the Playstation ..In a way, with hindsight, I’m glad we didn’t win the playoff final, as the entire next season in the Premiership would have been an albeit different squad ‘rebuild’, but at a considerably higher level of intensity and pressure.
We’d have had to gel a lot quicker, for sure, and there was potential to be whipping boys, even if we kept both Vik and Gus.
I’d rather us get there with an established and evolving team spine, and actually survive, and avoid being the next yo-yo team.
I think that is a very low possibility.100% they will and I am 99% certain he would be sacked.
You've seen how unhappy people on here are after a couple of defeats. Imagine getting a constant good thumping.
I think it becomes strategic. Use the money to buy 2-3 top championship level players. Take the parachute payment and invest again. Then try and repeat until you can assemble a squad to one day consolidate. It’s quite a long process but less risky than just going for it.
Just wondering if Gus regrets signing for such a bad team. Surely he can't be happy.
I do genuinely think we'd have had more of a go at staying up than Burnley & Sheff Utd.
Had a similar conversation with Andy Turner after bumping into him outside Wembley before the game. I said it didn't feel like we were ready and that I didn't want us to do a Forest and bring in 15/20 players just to try and stay up. We'd built such an affiliation with the players, it would have been sad to see none of them wear the shirt again.In a way, with hindsight, I’m glad we didn’t win the playoff final, as the entire next season in the Premiership would have been an albeit different squad ‘rebuild’, but at a considerably higher level of intensity and pressure.
We’d have had to gel a lot quicker, for sure, and there was potential to be whipping boys, even if we kept both Vik and Gus.
I’d rather us get there with an established and evolving team spine, and actually survive, and avoid being the next yo-yo team.
It was a crazy move from the off. What a daft thing to do.
You would have thought that other Premier clubs would have looked at him, who were a bit more bedded in, in the Premier, like Palace or Brentford etc.
Sheff Utd always looked odds on certainties to come straight back down again
Yes Wolves will be a good indicator of where we are. They will play their first eleven for sure so lets see.Sheffield won’t be the same team when they come down - change of management and some poor purchases including Gus who needed a team around him BUT they will get full parachute payments which make it so bloody unfair - let’s see how we get on against Wolves
I think he went to SU knowing they would be in a relegation batle. But he wanted to test himself against great teams and players. And the vast amount of moneyJust wondering if Gus regrets signing for such a bad team. Surely he can't be happy.
Always a bad fit.It was a crazy move from the off. What a daft thing to do.
You would have thought that other Premier clubs would have looked at him, who were a bit more bedded in, in the Premier, like Palace or Brentford etc.
Sheff Utd always looked odds on certainties to come straight back down again
As for Sheffield United...they've down tools. I didn't realise Gus was playing last night until he got a kick of the ball halfway through the second half
It you can keep the team spirit together and add some quality you can have a good go at staying up.
I don't understand why Burnley and Kompany seem to have gone under the radar about how shambolic they are. They've spent 100m on top of a championship winning squad and look awful.
Yes Wolves will be a good indicator of where we are. They will play their first eleven for sure so lets see.
Seeing what they did to West Brom and what West Brom did to us doesn’t portend well.
I think that's exactly what we tried to do but is not turned out as expected yetIf we got up, we would be hot favourites to go back down again. There would be a lot of money incoming. A sharp club would buy a lot of players with potential and contracts organised to drop on relegation to within a manageable level, taking into account parachute payments. Some players would excel in the Prem and be sold at a premium. If managed correctly, it could make us for years to come. Managed poorly hello Stoke City.
The usual 'you'd move jobs for a substantial payrise' has been rolled out multiple times on here but there has to be more reasoning than money to get out of bed in the mornings, surely?
Hamer can't seriously be enjoying this seasons chastening experience despite a substantial paycheck and what will next season bring in the championship?
It looks like a gamble that hasn't paid off for him.
But considering the losses even PL teams make it seems like that 'dosh' isn't that important. If many of them came down they'd have massive financial problems within a couple of years if they stayed down.I just feel like the gap between the top sides and the likes of Sheffield utd, Luton and any teams that get promoted, especially teams such as us who haven’t been in the prem for a very long time (and thus not benefitted from the dosh) is getting so big now it’s almost impossible to compete.
Obviously the likes of wolves, Brentford and Brighton have been very smart with what they’ve done to allow them to stay there for a bit and build, but how often did we see teams like arsenal and Liverpool (Man Utd and Chelsea back when they were winning) smashing teams for 5 or 6 regularly like we do now? It happened the odd time but not regularly. Sheff it’s got beat 6-0 last night and 8-0 earlier in season?
One of the pundits said it last week in the Luton Man City game, that those two teams are in the same league, and it was worlds apart.
That is true I guess.But considering the losses even PL teams make it seems like that 'dosh' isn't that important. If many of them came down they'd have massive financial problems within a couple of years if they stayed down.
Even with hundreds of millions of income it's still down to super rich owners being willing to absorb eye-watering losses while finding away around FFP
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