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Teams coming up

Longy said:
Impossible to answer. Every club will sign players in the summer if they come up. It’s how good those signings are, not how much they spend on them.

The Mags spent £130m on two strikers. One plays in midfield & the other one gets a minute here & there & swaps shirts with the opponent.

We spent £20m on a player we utilise as an important part of our game.

They’ll all have to buy players, but until they do it impossible to say who’ll cause us the most bother.
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Likes their big rivals match winning insta posts while still sitting in the changing room too. Sound investment
 

Kenna said:
Coventry are already fucked if their owners comment are anything to go by, thinking we somehow did it wrong to invest in the team and replace championship players.
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He’s just making excuses for when he signs no one
 
Rossi said:
Of the teams coming up , would it be better for us , , 3 teams with no previous parachute payments eg cov millwall and boro , coming up , or teams with parachute already eg cov Ipswich and Southampton, ?
Personally think apart from cov who are already up , it would be better if Ipswich and Southampton came up as less for them to spend on strengthening so more likely to go straight down again like Burnley
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I don’t understand what this means. Care to explain?

For the good of the league I’d rather have the novelty value of new teams so Millwall and Boro would be my preference.

Who do I think will come up with Coventry?
Southampton in 2nd and Millwall through the play offs.
 
jcrossan said:
Long as we don't play any of them in the first month. Let reality sink in first.
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Yeah it’s the worst time to play them really. You want to play them from around mid-October.

Look at Burnley. Had a few good results early (including beating us) and then barely won a game from October to about February. Think they went something stupid like 14 without a win during that period.
 
Turnip from the Tip said:
I don’t understand what this means. Care to explain?

For the good of the league I’d rather have the novelty value of new teams so Millwall and Boro would be my preference.

Who do I think will come up with Coventry?
Southampton in 2nd and Millwall through the play offs.
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I believe its something to do with championship teams who spend beyond their means to get promoted buying a good championship team (which isnt good enough for PL) then have their wings clipped financially following year to buy actual PL quality players. The fact we got promoted on a shoe string meant we were able to spend a fortune on the right players.
 
Mr Redknapp said:
Wouldn't read too much into it..the lads team that won the playoffs was totally different to the one that started against West Ham;)
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We have decent money backing and an actual plan. Most teams that do what we did end up struggling, even forest took it right to the wire the season they spent a fortune when they came up. We’re just lucky that we have some sort of plan to go with the spending of money.
ajryan86 said:
Dunno, the mags have us down next season as we have been lucky this season.
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Seen that a few times, mind they’re running out of excuses now and having look spread over 32 games is some luck like. The club should’ve just been playing the euro millions with that luck would’ve paid for itself this season.
 
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Mr Redknapp said:
Wouldn't read too much into it..the lads team that won the playoffs was totally different to the one that started against West Ham;)
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Even though this was said tongue in cheek it’s still possible that any of the promoted three sides could transform their squad like we did.

Despite all the doom mongers it’s looking very much like only one of the three promoted sides from last season will go straight back down.

I’d like that to happen again.

Spurs to go this season, let’s see another of the self labelled ‘big clubs’ to go down next season.
 
If clubs otherwise due parachute payments next season come up that money gets redistributed back to other PL clubs, so a bit more cash for us.
 
As we know all too well, it's whoever is on top form when it comes to the play offs.
Luton pipped us the other year when we should really have beaten them, but look at where they are now, and indeed us.
 
42 said:
I believe its something to do with championship teams who spend beyond their means to get promoted buying a good championship team (which isnt good enough for PL) then have their wings clipped financially following year to buy actual PL quality players. The fact we got promoted on a shoe string meant we were able to spend a fortune on the right players.
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I think where we really benefited was still being relatively new the the Championship. It was the league 1 cost cutting and then keeping the wage bill down in the Championship that put is in a good position.

Most clubs in the 2nd tier who have been in it a while are living beyond their means. It’s a division that just doesn’t seem to be financially viable
 
PoolsMackem123 said:
Ipswich and Southampton would cause us more bother than Boro and Millwall would. Don't particularly see any of them (Coventry included) coming close to staying up, mostly because none of the 5 apart from Ipswich will spend big at all, and Ipswich have an awful manager who cannot use the squad he has. Ultimately, nowadays, you need to do as we did and spend massive and change such a significant chunk of your squad.

Benefits us though, as think next season will be a closed shop job, with the 3 promoted teams going back down fairly easily, as they did the last few seasons.

Also this - just stay away from them for the first few games and its all good. See Burnley away this season.
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I hope you're wrong. It's not good for the game for all 3 promoted teams to go straight back down.

Obviously I don't want any of them to stay up at our expense, however 😉.
 
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