https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/851396027382996993 Interesting stuff. Makes you realise what we are up against QPR'S wage bill 41 million quid ******* bonkers.
Didn't you know that's exactly what we should be doing. Stop selling players and give them £30k a week, 5 year contracts. To everyone.
What about Brighton's gross debt of £171 million? Even if they go up, the increase in expenditure will mean that the PL t.v. money won't even come close to clearing that. Presumably they'll sign more players on ludicrous contracts in order to try and stay up. If they go down and stay down, they'll be absolutely fcked.
Me too mate 100 percent. Shows it'll be hard to maintain with the insanity around us but for now we need to take a step back and give ourselves the pat on the back that we deserve.
It just suggests to me that the QPR players (and the rest of their ilk) are massively overpaid, and not that much better, if at all than ours. I'm sure if we had spent a couple of recent seasons in the premier league then we would currently be paying our players much more too: circumstance.
I told you my Brighton mates don't think the future is rosy. Though I think a lot of the stadium debt will be written off/written down.
Unsustainable. We need to keep cool heads and be in a position to take full advantage when this whole house of cards crashes down. Be a few years like. Sent from the darkest recesses of a poisoned mind.
Some people underestimate the money in football, and the disparity it's created. Just because we reached the premier league 20yrs ago, they think that it's something we should be looking for again and anything less shows a lack of ambition. In reality, things have changed so much, and you've only to look at the teams we played against in that promotion season to see how much. Grimsby, Swindon, Port Vale, Bradford, Oldham and Oxford rubbing shoulders with QPR, Man City, Wolves, Norwich and West Brom, all in the same division and still a fairly level playing field where the smaller clubs could still afford a decent player. Totally different environment today, and a lot of those teams that we shared this league 20 years ago would probably love to be us. Sent from my SM-G850F using Tapatalk
There are some clubs below us in the pyramid as opposed to 20 years ago and some above us not sure what that shows other than football is cyclical. On the general point though it is certainly harder to compete with those spending money they don't have on players they can't afford. The concentration of money in the hands of a few distorts competition. Onwards and upwards
We've got a better side than them. They've just brought in a load of foreigners and not really done anything with them. I'd have one or two of their players down at Oakwell but overall, we'd beat them more times than they'd beat us with exactly the same teams.
Look at Stockport County. Many visits to their ground in this division. Good away day. Due to being taken over by people that wanted the ground for use by Sale Sharks they are now in the division below the conference.
