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I appreciate there is an inflation adjustment needed here but Brentford 1st season back net spend 38 mil. Fulham 1st season back in Prem, net spend 73 mil. Leicester and Southampton last season, 81 and 123 mil respectively.

And there are plenty who've spent that much and still got relegated, there are those that have spent less and thrived. Canny recruitment and a management and coaching team with a decent game plan can go a long way. And Forest are not a good model to follow, sacked their most succesful...

No surprise. Worth every penny of the incoming fine to see their support losing their heads to be honest, fucking idiots.

And what makes you think 100 mil is the magic number that guarantees staying up? Wolves squad, who are stinking the place out at the moment, is valued at 370 mil according to transfer market. Even spending 100 mil doesn't get our squad to that value. And again, you are trying to put an...

Again, it's not the spend, it's having a contingency in place for relegation. But the more you spend the more your wage bill rises, can we service that wage bill in the Championship if the worse happens is the question?

Where have I said we don't need to spend money?

The collapse of ITV Digital didn't hit us more than anything. The banks, specifically the CO-OP deciding to stop bank rolling badly run football clubs hit us harder, the collapse of ITV Digital just compounded it. But it wouldn't have mattered anywheee near as much if we'd had our finances in...

No, but it lead to years of misery for us supporters. I don't think we'll see that scenario again, (the fact we now own the CBS should ensure that), but never say never, which is why I'm guarded against thinking one promotion to the PL means we can start spending like its going out of fashion again.

I'd imagine so, but I think there's quite a lot of players, if they're of proven quality, who won't sign up to a wage drop clause, that's where the club have to hold their ground and say no deal then.

Again, I'm not disputing that, the initial outlay isn't the problem, but that comes with a huge wage bill that can become unsustainable in the event of relegation. That has to be guarded against.

Yeah, that deal collapsing just compounded everything.

It was a chain of events, we wouldn't have needed them to stop us going into admin when they first arrived if we hadn't overspent.

Well we clearly did overspend, and that lead to us losing the ground that was supposed to be ours and the 'white knights' of sisu coming to our 'rescue'.

What?!

OK, so one person. And there's a difference between ambition and recklessness. You've said why can't we do Brighton or a Fulham, and hopefully we can but we could also mess up like plenty of other teams. Bournemouth is a poor example, they had several years absence where the billionaire owner...

Can you link the posts where people have said follow the Luton model? Not one person's said that. If you want to start making such tenuous links do you want wasps back? Because you want to follow the model that lead to them being here. And it's not about spending the money initially, it's...

Would apply to both clubs. But as Frostie pointed out, not true.

Is yours as hot as Dr.Melfi?

Why shouldn't they? I've gone to loads of games where we're massive underdogs but thought we'd win.

He's also a businessman with an ego, flipping the club for a fortune and telling people about it would also appeal to him I'd imagine. Though that's just a counter view, none of us know his real intentions.