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RE: The Tykes v The Terriers - theo_luddite - 13-01-2020
I agree it has but to some extent it was a bubble that would have burst pretty darned quick whichever way you look at it. How far do you want to go back? Chelski getting a rich Russian Oligarch owner who could afford to burn money to get them to the places Ken Bates could only ever dreamed of being as Master Bates? Man City being taken over by an oil rich Arab State? With all that money it's been 12 years to be the best team on the planet for a couple of years and they still haven't won the biggest European Trophy, but they've inflated transfer fees/wages of Prima Donna League and European players on their way. Or PSG and their €200+ million fee for a player worth at best half that, that overnight doubled the transfer fee (and a large chunk of their wages) of every player anywhere in Europe? What agent worth his salt isn't going to say his player is now worth £10m if prior to this he was only worth £5m?
That happened just as were were supposed to splash down in the land of cream and honey. Meaning overnight a slack handful of players that wouldn't have cost £25 million between them suddely cost us £50 million and that was only the first season. Throw in their wages and those of the promoted players that we kept on, plus all the other hangers-on and Prima Donna League bullshit, it's not hard to blow that £100 million bounty now is it? We could have spent half of it, banked (or paid Deano off) with the rest and come down almost pointless the first season.
Of course there's no excuse from anyone that we spunked a load of money in the 2nd Season on players that our coach decided at the last minute he didn't want after he got rid of players who were arguably no worse from the same positions. Whatever communications were going on in the club last year they certainly weren't happening around the same table or Deano's hospital bed.
Take a look at those clubs that actually spent big money in the Chumpionship and before to go up - we didn't, remember? We belatedly spent what appears to be all of our wedge (badly it turns out) to try and stay up. Our squad at the time we came down was supposedly worth £101m (all figures below Tranfermarkt.co.uk). Cardiff arguably might have kept some brass with a squad worth only around £70m, their books when released may say otherwise.
Bornmuff - been throwing Russian money at it in a big way, mostly on wages as they kept transfer fees off the radar on the way up, since they were in League 2 (or whatever it was back then). Their squad is now supposedly worth £314 million - current position 19th
Brighton - squad value £195m - current position 14th
Vanilla - squad value £231m - current position 18th
Newcastle - they had the most valuable squad ever in the Championship as they more or less hung on o the squad that got relegated. - Squad value £243m - current position 13th
Norwich - £134m - current position 20th (who's in charge of their recruitment again?)
Wolves - been throwing Chinese Yuan around from Fosun for quite a while now - £305m - current position 7th
Sheff Utd - £105m - current position 6th - the one and only major anomaly.
Clubs such as Watford, West Ham, Everton, Southampton, all who have been there for years (relatively in some cases, actually in others) have sat on the trap door or below this season with squad values in the region of £200m-£400m.
It would be nice for Sheffield Utd to succeed where we failed, but don't forget what happened the last time they were up there. They eventually threw daft money at it and sank, went bust and broke throwing good money after bad and we know where last met them. A passionate fan and former player as a manager, perhaps more so than a passionate man as a Chairman, is working for them right now. How long will it last?
I guess my point is this - we failed to plan for the unexpected, so ultimately we planned to fail.
It wasn't helped however by ordinary players suddenly commanding superstar transfer fees and wages and then expecting to be on the tellybox every week without working too hard to make it happen.
Sheffield are at a point now where they know the first season bubble may keep going and I hope it does but the second season bubble can burst thanks to the tiniest prick in the club. They are clearing out some of the faithful that got them there, but the new guys coming in might make all the right noises to begin with, until the defeats start to rack up. Seem familiar. They have to be really careful about who they recruit this year.
If we go up again, we'll have to spunk the lot again just to come back down, let alone stay there. The TV money seems enormous compared to Chumpionship earnings, but because of the cost of doing business up there, it just about lets you tick over. Unless Sheffield can light a fire under the boardrooms of the Prima Donna League and make some of them see sense, but to be honest it won't happen. The top clubs will now happily spunk £50-£80m on players that would have only commanded 10% of that figure 10 years ago. Why? Because they can afford to.
RE: The Tykes v The Terriers - Lord Snooty - 14-01-2020
Spunking money is a very odd image.
RE: The Tykes v The Terriers - Lord Snooty - 14-01-2020
Huddersfield Town have been charged by the Football Association over an incident in their 2-1 defeat at Barnsley.
Town are accused of being in breach of FA Rule E20 in the latter stages of the game at Oakwell.
The FA Tweeted: "It is alleged that, in or around the 96th minute of the fixture, Huddersfield failed to ensure its players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion.
RE: The Tykes v The Terriers - Amelia Chaffinch - 14-01-2020
Well I think the ref was in breach of FA rules!
