QPR, Hull, Cardiff, Fulham etc all have parachute payments that give them a £20 million head start over the Albion.
Do you see the disconnect in our income?
Fulham spent £10.5 million on McCormack, Rovers spent £9 million on Rhodes. Where did it get them?
A £7m signing on a five year contract is £1.4 million a year. Add to that wages of (say) 25k a week and it works out at a cost of about £2,5 million a year.
FFP loss is £13 million, which is an...
Having experienced it 1979-83, it's not all that it's cracked up to be.
We ended up with sub 10,000 crowds at home and sub 100 travelling to some away matches.
Agreed, Palace were helped by a club gifting them a 30 goal a season striker on a Bosman to help them to promotion. (Opens old wound, gets salt shaker)
I agree with your second point, but small clubs such as Palace get 90% of their income from TV rights, and so attendances and facilities are a non-issue in terms of being able to recruit players, as their main focus is wages, which are determined to a large extent by the division in which the...