| Poundland 08:26 - Jan 17 with 1000 views | cressi |
People remark we are looking for our Marcus Stewart but in the 90's we paid 2.5 million and his goals helped us get promoted.
Today 2.5 million is more like 10 million so we seem to want a player under 2 millon it's going to be a loan , out of contract player somebody who's career has stagnated we think we can revive or a hungry lower level player we can improve. Where would you go if McKenna for a player 🤔 very difficult. |  | | |  |
| Poundland on 08:59 - Jan 17 with 891 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
There was no Financial Fair Play then.
There are indications that we might be pushing our limits on that front, and also that we, and the other Promotion contenders, are taking it seriously.
If one club blinks first, and starts chucking money around, maybe it will trigger others to do the same, but at the moment it is looking like deals can't be done because of FFP limits.
Which may, in turn, force agents and players to lower their immediate demands and accept contracts skewed towards a higher pay day on promotion, and higher cuts in salary if relegated back to the Championship. | | | |
| Poundland on 09:37 - Jan 17 with 802 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| Poundland on 08:59 - Jan 17 by ArnoldMoorhen |
There was no Financial Fair Play then.
There are indications that we might be pushing our limits on that front, and also that we, and the other Promotion contenders, are taking it seriously.
If one club blinks first, and starts chucking money around, maybe it will trigger others to do the same, but at the moment it is looking like deals can't be done because of FFP limits.
Which may, in turn, force agents and players to lower their immediate demands and accept contracts skewed towards a higher pay day on promotion, and higher cuts in salary if relegated back to the Championship. |
“There was no Financial Fair Play then.”
This basically. But it does make you wonder how other teams are avoiding trouble in that respect. Stoke in particular have spent loads over the last year or so. I can’t imagine they have a larger revenue base given their attendances are about 5/6k below ours. On top of that there doesn’t appear to be any realistic prospect of them being promoted. So are teams like Stoke going to end up with points deductions further down the line, or will they have to engage in a fire sale of players. It’s obviously the right thing we are taking FFP seriously but that doesn’t seem to be the case elsewhere. | | | |
| Poundland on 09:44 - Jan 17 with 774 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Poundland on 09:37 - Jan 17 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
“There was no Financial Fair Play then.”
This basically. But it does make you wonder how other teams are avoiding trouble in that respect. Stoke in particular have spent loads over the last year or so. I can’t imagine they have a larger revenue base given their attendances are about 5/6k below ours. On top of that there doesn’t appear to be any realistic prospect of them being promoted. So are teams like Stoke going to end up with points deductions further down the line, or will they have to engage in a fire sale of players. It’s obviously the right thing we are taking FFP seriously but that doesn’t seem to be the case elsewhere. |
Stoke have sold a few players for decent money over the last 3 season cycle - notably Harry Souttar for ÂŁ15m and Nathan Collins for ÂŁ20m. | | | |
| Poundland on 09:45 - Jan 17 with 767 views | DarkBrandon |
We’d only just sold Dyer for £6m
Which is like us selling Davis for ÂŁ25m in the summer and spending most of that money afterwards.
Not at all comparable to now |  | | |
| Poundland on 09:59 - Jan 17 with 689 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Poundland on 08:59 - Jan 17 by ArnoldMoorhen |
There was no Financial Fair Play then.
There are indications that we might be pushing our limits on that front, and also that we, and the other Promotion contenders, are taking it seriously.
If one club blinks first, and starts chucking money around, maybe it will trigger others to do the same, but at the moment it is looking like deals can't be done because of FFP limits.
Which may, in turn, force agents and players to lower their immediate demands and accept contracts skewed towards a higher pay day on promotion, and higher cuts in salary if relegated back to the Championship. |
FFP doesn't help - but the bigger issue we can't compete with are Parachute Payments.
ME was right on this - when there are always six clubs in the Champ with PPs, it makes it very hard for the others to compete due to FFP.
Whether that was convenient excuse for him is another matter. But he's right.
I know from a Stoke supporting friend that the Coates family are incredibly frustrated by it all, as they are not allowed to invest the sums they would like - they are the family who own Bet365.
PPs and FFP cause such a mis-match in the Champ that any relegated club that doesn't immediately bounceback to the Prem have had an epic fail. |  |
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