24/25 championship wage bills (2 Viewers)

[CraigSBA]

Credit @swissramble on twitter

 

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[clint van damme]

That really puts into perspective the job Lampards done. And Alex Neil as well to be fair.

Especially with Blues and Wrexham now in the mix

 

[mmttww]

and makes clear what a good job Austin and co. have done. Finding players we can afford with the further constraint of not paying the batshit wages others do. If you accept the idea that data people put fwd that wages paid correlates more than anything else to on-pitch results, it's really impressive.

 

[clint van damme]

and makes clear what a good job Austin and co. have done. Finding players we can afford with the further constraint of not paying the batshit wages others do. If you accept the idea that data people put fwd that wages paid correlates more than anything else to on-pitch results, it's really impressive.

I still think stability has gone a long way to compensating for what we lacking budget.

2 managers in 9 years, no massive churn of players, Lampard came in and pretty much worked with what was here.

The additions that have been made have been excellent.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

That really puts into perspective the job Lampards done. And Alex Neil as well to be fair.

Especially with Blues and Wrexham now in the mix

And Sunderland

 

[clint van damme]

And Sunderland

True.

 

[Sbarcher]

No Burnley?

 

[mmttww]

I still think stability has gone a long way to compensating for what we lacking budget.

Yeah, agreed. We have that on the playing side because we nailed the landing on basically every player that arrived in summer '23. Collins as the exception to the rule.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

I still think stability has gone a long way to compensating for what we lacking budget.

2 managers in 9 years, no massive churn of players, Lampard came in and pretty much worked with what was here.

The additions that have been made have been excellent.

This is such a good point and something I've been thinking about recently.

Stability is so crucial but on top of that we've been lucky that not only have we had a generational manager, but we've followed it up with a replacement that's slotted right in and continued the upward trajectory.

There's not many clubs where that's happened, bar maybe Liverpool (bar Slots recent struggles).

 

[Sky Blue Wozza]

Spending the Vik transfer money in summer 23/24 on Wright, Van Ewijk, Sakamoto and Simms was excellent business.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

It’s very rare in this division to have as little player turnover in the summer as we did, which meant that we had a big headstart on other clubs who were getting new signings embedded and new tactics on board. The way we play requires great understanding between the players which was already built in.

If we had Onyeka and Esse to call upon from August instead of January…crikey.

 

[Dougin]

Pitching to perspective what a great job Doug King has done to be honest. Without Doug we wouldn’t be where we are today.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Pitching to perspective what a great job Doug King has done to be honest. Without Doug we wouldn’t be where we are today.

Without doubt

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

It’s very rare in this division to have as little player turnover in the summer as we did, which meant that we had a big headstart on other clubs who were getting new signings embedded and new tactics on board. The way we play requires great understanding between the players which was already built in.

If we had Onyeka and Esse to call upon from August instead of January…crikey.

But if they'd have signed in the summer would we have been like the other clubs in getting players used to the tactics etc, and we'd have just been one of the pack rather than having a decent gap at the top? Was it that familiarity that allowed us to get that head start on everyone?

I thought at the start of the season that our smaller squad would start to bite around Xmas with lots of fixtures as well as suspensions and injuries and that's when we'd need the extra players. Thankfully we got those in January before the small squad ended up being an irreversible problem and we've kicked on (and arguably we got the likes of Onyeka because of our great start putting us in such a good position for promotion - I don't think we'd have got him in August or if we'd just been sniffing around in the play-offs).

Whether by luck or judgement, our transfer strategy this season seems to have been timed brilliantly.