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Takeover in trouble

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steve30000 said:
You need to be extremely f***ing good with player recruitment, whilst spending next to nothing whilst getting promoted twice.

Saying that spending a bit of money won't give you a much better chance of going up, is daft, because your odds of going up improve if you spend
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We had the biggest spend last season mate of all the league 1 clubs.... Spending does'nt guarantee anything but it sure does help to improve the chances. Alas ,looking back, we didn't spend that wisely sitting here now.:(
 
molthemackem said:
We had the biggest spend last season mate of all the league 1 clubs.... Spending does'nt guarantee anything but it sure does help to improve the chances. Alas ,looking back, we didn't spend that wisely sitting here now.:(
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The centerback business in particular was as bad as any shite we've bought in the last 10 years (and that is saying something.)

Woefully not fit for purpose.

Can't say it's exactly confidence-building if the investment doesn't go through and we're forced to buy on a shoestring whilst the fianl parachute payment gets apportioned to running the club and shoring up debts or something else (and not actually put towards improving the squad.)

Anyways, last call at the last chance saloon before likely years in the wilderness.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
Hudderfield, Norwich, Sheffield United, Burnley and others didn't. And even less is needed to get out of League 1. Who is a far more important question than how much.
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They didn't and Leicester won the league. I get your point. It can happen.

But the key is to spend diligently whether you spend a little or a lot. For example if club A and B are on par, lets say both championship clubs. Club A spends 5m shrewdly but club B spends 20m equally as shrewdly then which will have the better squad and subsequently the better chance of promotion ?
 
gatopreto said:
They didn't and Leicester won the league. I get your point. It can happen.

But the key is to spend diligently whether you spend a little or a lot. For example if club A and B are on par, lets say both championship clubs. Club A spends 5m shrewdly but club B spends 20m equally as shrewdly then which will have the better squad and subsequently the better chance of promotion ?
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At that point it depends on which manager can get the best out of their squads. In theory, you may be right. But theories have a distinct tendency of coming unstuck when it comes to football.
 
Dave_39 said:
september for league 1
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Good news for us is that the championship window closes before then. Some good players will find they haven't got a move to the championship or aren't around the first team in the championship and might suddenly become a lot more open to moving to league one
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
We have a significant percentage of fans who still think the only answer is to throw unnecessarily large amounts of money around. It's the one legacy of Short the owners can't get rid of.
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and a significant percentage that the club(particularly the playing side) should have a coherent philosophy
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
We have a significant percentage of fans who still think the only answer is to throw unnecessarily large amounts of money around. It's the one legacy of Short the owners can't get rid of.
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I honestly couldn't give a fuck about the amount we spend. It's been proven time and again by other clubs that you need to spend very little to get promotion from this league.

It's all about smart recruitment and at the moment we don't even have any recruitment going on, let alone smart recruitment.

From the outside looking in, it looks like - yet again - we're f***ing about for the majority of the summer while other clubs get business done. If we're not careful we'll end up pissing around in the last few weeks of the season getting panic buys in - again - and be in exactly the same situation we've seemed to find ourselves in for what seems like the last twenty years.
 
partridge amongst the pig said:
I honestly couldn't give a fuck about the amount we spend. It's been proven time and again by other clubs that you need to spend very little to get promotion from this league.

It's all about smart recruitment and at the moment we don't even have any recruitment going on, let alone smart recruitment.

From the outside looking in, it looks like - yet again - we're f***ing about for the majority of the summer while other clubs get business done. If we're not careful we'll end up pissing around in the last few weeks of the season getting panic buys in - again - and be in exactly the same situation we've seemed to find ourselves in for what seems like the last twenty years.
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Sums up Sunderland to a tee:lol:
 
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