Even if we do stay up...

Surely we’ll be in for an even more horrific season next year without our only two Championship quality players - Yiadom and McBurnie.

Or maybe the new owners will do exactly what they said they wouldn’t, and start flashing the cash...

It will take some serious investment and a fair amount of luck to turn Jose and the misfits into a team capable of competing in this league.

Anyway, here’s to becoming the Manchester City of the Championship.

 

Ive been impressed with Yiadom's attitude since his move to Swansea fell apart, BUT Ive got to ask is he really as good as most fans say he is. Remember he wanted to leave in the first place, so we're better off without players who dont want to stay here.

 

Suppose it depends on what they class as "competing" really. If we manage to stay up tomorrow they might see that as success and not change much in terms of spend and where we recruit from.

I really don't know what to expect from them.

 

Think credit should be given he could have sulked and wasted away in the reserves had a bad attitude. .the lad in my opinion should be praised for honouring his contract and a the same time doing his best...respect to the lad... not many would have acted like he as...too many big time charlies in today's game.... just my opinion

 

Yiadom is a class act best right back since eaden for me. If he doesn't want to be here tho let him go. Sometimes he gets unwarranted stick last week people said he was poor then got named in efl team of the week.

 

Its hard to call a relegation escape act a 'success' isnt it Fitz, so that worries me if the owners look at it that way and kid themselves that we dont need to make big changes. (and Im talking here as if we do stay up!)
And going back to the opening post, yes I think we'll just be in the same situation again next season unless serious and sensible investment is made by the owners.

 

It's impossible to predict what any club will do next season. I remember Hull nearly going down one season and going up the next. Huddersfield had season after season of bottom half struggles and their promotion came from nowhere. One things for sure. If you're not in it, you aren't going to win it.

 

I think given through squad the new owners inherited staying up would be an achievement. I won't feel the same next year though given they can see the problems this squad have in this league.

However, if we go down only top 6 can be a success next season though.

 

They're successful business people. It doesn't take a genius to work out that a repeat of this season will be asking for trouble, both on the pitch and off it. Anyway, we have to stay up first. I'm already up, and feeling very edgy.

 

I'd rather stay up first and then argue later. Coyr, let's do it today!

 

If we go down we don’t need to change much. If we stay up then it’s a massive overhaul of playing staff. 2 championship standard forwards and 2 championship standard central midfielders won’t be cheap. Let alone the other 4/5 players we need.

 

I think the best idea would be to stop up & then start worrying about next season

 

Lots of successful business people run football clubs, but these guys were attracted to our plan, which has put us in peril of relegation and given the fans very little in terms of entertainment this season.

 

really good player but what about John Curtis, Kieran Trippier?

 

Personally think they will spend, I think their comments were more a we are not going to be spending £15million etc on players.
Let’s get today out way and then look forward to an interesting Summer

 

Something needs to change I think we all agree on that!

 

Yep, that's the impression I got. 15 million and 50 grand a week isn't likely to be happening, and I for one am very glad about that. But if we stay up I would fully expect us to be in the market for players in the 3-4 million bracket, and paying wages on a par with the divisional average. If not I'd be quite disappointed.

 

I just can’t see us spending £3-4million on the entire squad, let alone a single player.

 

I'm worried for the future personally, unless the new guys change their outlook on spending.

It's not so much transfer fees thats the issue, but wages. I was talking to a current player of a fellow championship club about a friend of his that is a solid championship player(solid at his best, but certainly no McBurnie), earlier in the season and flippantly said "tell him to get down to t'Well lad", to which he laughed and said (and I'm paraphrasing) "no offence mate, but most of the lads in this league see Barnsley as a bit on the tin pot side, and I know for a fact he would want at lease £40k a week to sign for them".

If thats what were up against, I feel we're ******!

 

Why? We must have spent more than that last summer when still in ultra thrift mode. The new owners aren't idiots, and they'll know full well what we'll need to be competitive in the second tier.