We just don’t know our cash situation though, good player i must say. For all we know we’ve gambled on Vik signing elsewhere and spent his dosh on KKE? hop not though !!
Depends what our real aim is. They were never going to state top 2 is the aim. Myself? I'd like to see us challenging at the top of the table. 3rd or 4th would be great if top 2 doesn't happen. For this to happen we would 'need' to have at least a decent start.
I was just thinking I’m sure I said the same!
Regardless, glad to hear Astutes/Lamps life is looking better.
I think there is better ways to spend £8m on this squad
a quicker start may end up with us not scrambling around the last 2/3 trying to get into the play offs. We'd also get the chance to rest players and at least make an attempt at automatic promotion. 4 of the last five seasons i think have seen a non relegated side get automatic so its not in the realms of impossibility.
I think it would be easier to list those who haven't said it over the years
The best thing is I now have more time to go to games and it's normally cheaper to fly to the UK than use public transport in the UK. You can get flights for about €17 each way. Recently I flew to Scotland. Here to Stansted then to Edinburgh. I first looked at a train from Stansted which was nearly £150. The flights cost me less than £40 in total. I didn't expect to get the second flight easily but it left 3 hours after arrival at Stansted. Oh the hardship of having to sit in a bar at the airport and be able to taste cider again
But am I right in saying that only one team did it without parachute payments - Ipswich? Who we know spent a lot of money.
Are we now down to just the 3 sides that have come down plus Sheffield United that are getting the payments? IIRC Sheffield United only get payments for 2 years as they only spent 1 year in the Prem.
Sheffield United rely on Hamer. Hopefully he is on his way out. We can only guess about Leicester but I wouldn't like to be in their position. Then we have Southampton and Ipswich.
I think that sounds right, because Norwich wouldn't still be receiving payments would they? TBH, you would think this would be the year that everything finally comes back to bite Leicester. I think Sheffield United's season really comes down to how Selles gets on. Southampton and Ipswich will be in the best positions.
I would assume Lampard has been given some sort of guarantees he will be backed again this summer and not have players sold from underneath him without his say so. I guess the question is whether DK throws the kitchen sink this summer or continues to play the long game. Personally I hope we do not do anything stupid and we spend within our means, It only takes 1 prem club to come sniffing and Lampard could be off and we find ourselves in a mess again
Our spending over the last 2 seasons has been significantly high. There’s only Sheff Utd alongside the 3 relegated sides that have the payments.
Theres a question mark over Leicester currently - there’s a real opportunity this season to push that. I’m not saying it’s not tough but trying to stick around like Sunderland did is infinitely better than scrambling around like us and Bristol City with 1 game to go
If things unravel for Leicester, and Sheffield United have a bit of a regrouping season, then you only need one of the 2 money clubs left to slip up for a well positioned club to take advantage.
Their wage bill was estimated at around £20m. Sunderland too had a big squad with some high wages. If we want to be a top four club we need to be closer to parachute teams in terms of wage spending than the rest of the league because you need quality in depth to make it through the season without a dip in form or without going easy and building up to a head (and still limping across the line).
So you need three money clubs to slip up, plus the two money clubs who just came up.
Depends on your views of these clubs and what happens between now and August.
With everything going on with Leicester it wouldn't be a surprise if they're not involved at the end of the season. Ipswich look strong. Southampton could do well but they have a new manager.
Of the other 2 Birmingham could be a danger with the money they have spent but they still need to gel. I think Wrexham will be more in line with consolidation.
Hope it works out for him, he's one of a number of youngsters the club just out grew.
If they value Eccles at 5 million, that would be interesting. As a stand alone 8 million it's probably too much
I didnt say he was. We still have better. Most of our CMs scored more than that last season, including Josh Eccles
He's not signed a new contract, I'll ask Liam if Cals on his way to us, him and me old muka JH are close pals
There's no way Callum Wilson is coming back here.
Didn't say he was just saying I would love him back here.
I doubt he will as well don't think he has the best memories from living here when he was a kid.
In regards to Dolan, I didn't hear anything else, nothing about transfers since last Tuesday.
Dolan was close to joining but must have been unhappy on the fact he would have been back up to Saka rather than a starter which is the final thing that got told to me.
That club in turkey must have offered a starting role which is now his preferred option.
One that could have gone either way for the ITKs I guess. I apologise but I wouldn't have been excited if he did join TBF.