25/26 January Transfer Window (26 Viewers)

SkyBluePower said:

Birmingham can afford to just make mistakes and reload with more players and if that doesn’t work sack the manager and if that doesn’t work sign a load more players in the summer until eventually it does work.
We don’t have that luxury of time or money thank god.

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Lamps said:

Yes they can afford to do a 'Stoke' and waste a few hundred million trying to get promotion. But until they come up with a proper plan they will always be up against Prem money and sides like ours that keep improving slowly. Signing a new team every season stops continuity which is very important.

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CovRes said:

The Coates family are spending their own money and can afford to write off debts. Wagner fronts a group of investors who may eventually decide they've had enough and look to get out while leaving the club with the debts.

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fernandopartridge said:

The investment into Birmingham City is in the form of loans with a 12% interest rate.

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Brighton Sky Blue said:

Roman Abramovich loaned Chelsea over £1 billion didn't he?

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SkyBluePower said:

Birmingham can afford to just make mistakes and reload with more players and if that doesn’t work sack the manager and if that doesn’t work sign a load more players in the summer until eventually it does work.
We don’t have that luxury of time or money thank god.

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Mucca Mad Boys said:

How much time does Birmingham actually have though?

FFP will kick in and as others have mentioned, the investors may scale back their interest in the club and leave them in the lurch.

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fernandopartridge said:

He did, though it was at a market interest rate

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David O'Day said:

and he basically was never serious about collecting, the interest on the blues loans makes me think the fund that owns them will want that cash back

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