Personally I look forward to seeing a team of extremely expensive, extremely talented foreign players of whom I have zero prior knowledge or personal connection with finish lower mid-table next season. Sack off Tats, Bobby and Haji, bring on the mercenaries.
Southampton net spent £120 mill but let Russell Martin manage it.
And that's it really, there are so many factors involved in staying up, throwing money about offers no guarantees of anything, all I'm saying is, if the worse happens, have a solid contingency plan, which to be fair, I think King will.
It’s just incredibly difficult all round. You have to significantly improve the squad but in so doing you dismantle the team that went up and have to integrate a whole load of new players in one summer.And that's it really, there are so many factors involved in staying up, throwing money about offers no guarantees of anything, all I'm saying is, if the worse happens, have a solid contingency plan, which to be fair, I think King will.
Better players give you a better chance. There is absolutely a correlation between money spent and success levels. Far more than any other variable.
I don't remember soton having a great squadRolled the dice.Their net spend last season was over 120 mil.
Forests was over 140.
Though Forest got docked points for their spending spree last season, so along with the reasons I outlined earlier, not sure they're a great example.
It’s just incredibly difficult all round. You have to significantly improve the squad but in so doing you dismantle the team that went up and have to integrate a whole load of new players in one summer.
Forest signed 20-30 players and the Greek Fat Tony bankrolled a huge chunk of it.I don't remember soton having a great squad
But I guess that goes to show it's alla bout recruitment. Forest spent loads a d brought in good players.
But you can waste money too
@Lamps I would have no issue with us spending over 100m
We just have to hope our recruitment continues to knock it out the park.
I don't remember soton having a great squad
But I guess that goes to show it's alla bout recruitment. Forest spent loads a d brought in good players.
But you can waste money too
@Lamps I would have no issue with us spending over 100m
We just have to hope our recruitment continues to knock it out the park.
Yeah and it worked. I rmemrber standing up for it at the time when posters on here were saying what a big mistake they were making etcForest signed 20-30 players and the Greek Fat Tony bankrolled a huge chunk of it.
So how much for the 4-5 20m players and the rest to take it up to 10? How much for the wages as they won't play for free.
I'm pretty sure Luton also thought they'd be good enough to challenge when they got relegated. They didn't consider how a season of struggle would affect the mentality of the squad and couldn't just switch back on the winning mentality or turn off the lack of belief. Plus how other teams would approach games with them. And we saw how that turned out.Luton didn't really spend anything and their big project was the stadium and the feeling was that they were never going to establish themselves, so why bother?
With Coventry, it's a populous one-club city so establishing Premiership status could attract significant investment to grow as a club in the way Forest, Leicester and others have.
You can't go up, not spend and expect things to go well.
No-one's saying it's a magic figure to stay up.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 arbitary figure on the spend, and that's not what I'm doing, I'm saying we need to be able to handle a relegation financially if it happens, which there's a very good chance happens.
Of course, there's also a correlation between wasteful overspending and clubs who really are far too big for L1 ending up there!
You said nobody was talking about spending all the Prem money plus parachute payments all in one go and I quoted you on that plus where you said about spending that much. Now you've changed what both of us have said.What's the purpose of this question?
You could apply it to this squad. We spent more than we've received on transfers, bought the stadium and increased the wage bill one the smallest to one of the biggest in the space of 3 seasons. The club is losing money as is.
For arguments sake, if you spend £100-120m on transfers and you stay up for 3-4 seasons, or even yo-yo between the leagues, it’s paid for itself.
You said nobody was talking about spending all the Prem money plus parachute payments all in one go and I quoted you on that plus where you said about spending that much. Now you've changed what both of us have said.
I said we need to be wise with the money. We need to keep our best players and complement what we have. I said we need to be careful of what we spend plus the wages. Some like yourself are happy to risk our financial future on giving it a go for one season and hope for the best.
I'm happy for us to spend whatever is affordable. None of us know about investments in our club and what we will have to spend. But after going through the last 25 years I don't want it to happen again.I think the ownership has proven itself capable. And I think that’s the key variable. I also think we’ve lucked onto a promising manager and I’d back him to make the most of what he’s given. As such I’d give him as much as possible.
Ask Sheffield United. Ask Leicester.What’s our financial future in the Championship?
So let's say we keep 14 playersYou said nobody was talking about spending all the Prem money plus parachute payments all in one go and I quoted you on that plus where you said about spending that much. Now you've changed what both of us have said.
I said we need to be wise with the money. We need to keep our best players and complement what we have. I said we need to be careful of what we spend plus the wages. Some like yourself are happy to risk our financial future on giving it a go for one season and hope for the best.
Who are they and what wages would they be on?So let's say we keep 14 players
We need to bring in about 7 more
You think we can get 7 prem quality players in for less than 100m? If we did it at 100m exactly would you say that's reckless spending?
The club should put you in charge of summer recruitment. It would certainly be interesting.Better players give you a better chance. There is absolutely a correlation between money spent and success levels. Far more than any other variable.
I don't know you tell me.Who are they and what wages would they be on?
I've wrestled with this and decided to enjoy the ride. Could get hit by a car tomorrow so might as well enjoy being top of the league and looking forward to promotion and spending loads of cash on wonderkids and quality players.I’ve got to say this talk of promotion is giving me the heebie jeebies. I’ve followed Coventry for around 45 years. This is not going to be a slam dunk. The clubs DNA won’t allow a comfortable ride.
It's not me wanting to spend endless money without knowing what we can afford to spend. What I have said is we need to be wise with what we spend. We need to add to our best players.I don't know you tell me.
I'm not saying we can't find a bargain or two
But we are gonna need to spend 10-15m on multiple players at very least.
Who are they and what wages would they be on?
The other extreme to this is signing free transfers and agents and the money goes on wages. Obviously not ideal but not every quality player commands a huge fee
I agreeIt's not me wanting to spend endless money without knowing what we can afford to spend. What I have said is we need to be wise with what we spend. We need to add to our best players.
As long as we're not stuck with several players on massive wages and go straight back down without being able to shift them out again.The other extreme to this is signing free transfers and agents and the money goes on wages. Obviously not ideal but not every quality player commands a huge fee
As long as we're not stuck with several players on massive wages and go straight back down without being able to shift them out again.
Which is my point. If we spend 100m on signing players our wage bill would be massive. We get about 100m for going up. And I will say it yet again. We don't know what our finances are. We don't know if we would have the funds for it.All the existing players will have salary adjustments on promotion. It’s impossible to sign players on championship wages if you get promoted
Which is my point. If we spend 100m on signing players our wage bill would be massive. We get about 100m for going up. And I will say it yet again. We don't know what our finances are. We don't know if we would have the funds for it.
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