This is where you're budget goes, greed greed greed. No justification whatsoever. It's just a game. ..
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I meant the history, all of it, you can't erase the last 30 years but keep what came before it. No tv money, no Oxford United, no football league, FA Cup etc. The achievements of OUFC fade away. I would be sad to see it all go.
Im shocked that it is that low
Yeah that's what I thought, I swear most league 1 clubs players are on more than 5 grand a week??
Definitely, Bolton, Wrexham, Birmingham, Charlton etc etc etc
werthersoriginal
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That was just some AI thing
Yeah another thing that's all wrong in life
Peterdev
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I remember that game well. They scored after about five minutes. Luckily my Norwich supporting friend took me by car
I don’t really understand your first point. We are talking about how we’d fare without the Sky money. If we don’t have the Sky money, our budget falls.
The point I’m making is that the relative value of the cash is more important than the absolute value. Do you think that you and Elon Musk would be equally affected by the news you were suddenly £1m poorer?
If you can’t see that us having to pay all of our players 50% less might have a bigger effect than Leeds not paying a fee for a single one of their multiple signings each year, I guess we can just agree to disagree.
Yeah, no-where in previous history was there rich egomaniac benefactors spending money of dubious origin on football clubs to get them success...
werthersoriginal
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It used to be 'a local businessman' with a string of garages.
Essexyellows
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Who mysteriously fall off a yacht.............................
I'd say the TV money helps us to be competitive with some of the bigger perennially midtable Championship clubs. Your Prestons or Stokes. Then the TV money takes some of the edge off the disparity in matchday and commercial revenues.
But for any team that has played in the Premier League in the last few seasons, the TV money is just exacerbating the differences. Not only are Sheffield United and Burnley generating more matchday and commercial revenue than us, they're also getting 5x the TV money.
So it's a long way from being the great leveller......
......in our league at least.
The Premier League TV deal, by contrast, has now gotten so large that (in combination with the FFP rules) it is starting to smooth out some of the disparities between the Top 6 and at least the other clubs that are long-term Premier League survivors.
Hell, we've just had a transfer window in which Palace and Villa were able to turn down offers for their best players from Top 6 clubs, meanwhile Chelsea and Man U had to be net sellers in order to cut down their losses! All the while Forest and even Bournemouth have a shot in February at CL football whilst Man U and Spurs do not (unless they win the Europa League).
Which is not me saying that it's better and more even than pre-Premier League, because it isn't.
But it does seem to be better and more even than it was ten years ago.
Although it now looks like it has created a situation where the 3 promoted teams are very, very likely to go down, rather than just very likely.
Oh, undoubtedly. Turning it into a closed shop.
If you're one of the current 17 established Premier League sides, you have to be pretty inept at spending your absurd resources to get yourself relegated.
BillyTurleys CurlyWurly
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If Derby can get a point there. So can we.
Let’s hope we take a better following than I expect
Let’s hope we take a better following than I expect
Flip side being if Derby can get a point at Norwich then they can get at least that at home to us.
They could always have got a result to us at home, we have only won one away game all season. We beat Norwich at home but I doubt that will have a bearing on Tuesday.
No real gap between the bottom 12 odd teams in this division for me, you just have to be well organised, have a good game plan, motivated and be on it/fight to it for as many games as possible to get the required points.
