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Ambitious PL rivals - spending plans



chaileyjem

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Steve Gibson, the Boro chairman, in a rare interview or statement recently apologised to their fans for their approach to the PL season. They were cautious in the transfer market. Burnley second time around spent a lot more and survived. In the brutal PL, it's all about squad quality and that takes serious money.
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Boro signed 9 players last summer including the 100K a week loanee Negredo and then a fortune in January on Gestede and Bamford, arguably not up to it.
Gibson's problem was not sacking Karanka last summer, not getting his cheque book out . He did.
 




perseus

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I really don't see Huddersfield even getting close to staying up this season.
Mind you: at the moment we're on course to head the same way.
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One HT fan expects them to sign Mooy and (Tom) Ince as well as Mounie. Already done deals?

Last season Huddersfield completed most of their transfers by the beginning of July when they were officially announced.

Also linked with Danny Williams, Patrick Roberts and Kasey Palmer.

Even if they got those they will still need a central defender and a goalkeeper!
 
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chaileyjem said:
Boro signed 9 players last summer including the 100K a week loanee Negredo and then a fortune in January on Gestede and Bamford, arguably not up to it.
Gibson's problem was not sacking Karanka last summer, not getting his cheque book out . He did.
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The facts:
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/10561129/what-did-your-premier-league-club-spend-during-the-transfer-window
PL transfer fee spending summer 2016, in reverse order:

Stoke £18m (added to an existing PL quality squad)
Hull £19m THEN RELEGATED
Boro £20m THEN RELEGATED
Burnley £22m (added to the £29m they'd spent on in the previous 2 years)
West Brom £22m (added to an existing PL quality squad)
Sunderland £27m THEN RELEGATED following many years of fighting it and with the fans hating the owner.

Even little old Bournemouth blew another £39m.

There's a clear correlation between spending, squad quality and survival, as we'd expect.

January spending is invariably rushed, too late and desparate buying clubs get ripped off. Unless the buyer is Sam Allerdyce who does seem to be bloody good at it.

The Boro Chairman apologised in May, not just regarding Karanka, but admitting their need to rebuild with pace and flair.
 
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chaileyjem said:
Wages ?
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Unfortunately we'll have to wait until March 2018, when the 20 PL clubs in season 2016/17 have all filed their accounts with Companies House. I don't think Boro were overspenders in that area too, as Gibson recently said that they are in a great financial position for the Championship. Which is often NOT the case for relegated parachute monied clubs, who go down with huge payrolls (QPR, Villa, Sunderland, etc).
 


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The facts:
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/10561129/what-did-your-premier-league-club-spend-during-the-transfer-window
PL transfer fee spending summer 2016, in reverse order:

Stoke £18m (added to an existing PL quality squad)
Hull £19m THEN RELEGATED
Boro £20m THEN RELEGATED
Burnley £22m (added to the £29m they'd spent on in the previous 2 years)
West Brom £22m (added to an existing PL quality squad)
Sunderland £27m THEN RELEGATED following many years of fighting it and with the fans hating the owner.

Even little old Bournemouth blew another £39m.

There's a clear correlation between spending, squad quality and survival, as we'd expect.
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Not sure it is a clear as you make out. In the previous season, Aston Villa were 6th highest spenders with £50m, Newcastle 7th with £49m and (to be fair) Norwich 20th with £7m (see https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...eague-transfer-window-summer-2015-interactive). There will be SOME correlation (as there is in Championship) but it is not as close as might be thought. I read somewhere that there is an almost perfect correlation between wages and League position though.
 


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Unfortunately we'll have to wait until March 2018, when the 20 PL clubs in season 2016/17 have all filed their accounts with Companies House. I don't think Boro were overspenders in that area too, as Gibson recently said that they are in a great financial position for the Championship. Which is often NOT the case for relegated parachute monied clubs, who go down with huge payrolls (QPR, Villa, Sunderland, etc).
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Exactly - that's the rub. David Jones says in the interview on another thread that Albion aim for a small surplus in 17/18, which seems to give sensible leeway to be able to poach a couple of good players using parachute monies for 18/19 if we are relegated.
 




perseus

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warmleyseagull said:
Not sure it is a clear as you make out. In the previous season, Aston Villa were 6th highest spenders with £50m, Newcastle 7th with £49m and (to be fair) Norwich 20th with £7m (see https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...eague-transfer-window-summer-2015-interactive). There will be SOME correlation (as there is in Championship) but it is not as close as might be thought. I read somewhere that there is an almost perfect correlation between wages and League position though.
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Wages rough guide PL.

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Would of been over the moon with the strIker hudds have signed . Good luck to them . Look to be going for it .

Really hope for some big activity soon.
 






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chaileyjem said:
Boro signed 9 players last summer including the 100K a week loanee Negredo and then a fortune in January on Gestede and Bamford, arguably not up to it.
Gibson's problem was not sacking Karanka last summer, not getting his cheque book out . He did.
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Everyone of those signings was rubbish except Valdes, all championship players.
 












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perseus said:
Wages rough guide PL.

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Annual payroll costs updated for the 2015/16 season, using Companies House published data, in reverse order:

Watford £58m
Bournemouth £60m
Norwich £67m RELEGATED
WBA £74m
Newcastle £75m RELEGATED
Villa £77m RELEGATED
Leicester £80m CHAMPIONS!
Palace £81m
Sunderland £82m
Southampton £82m
Stoke £82m
Swansea £82m
West Ham £85m
 






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forumwayseagull said:
We are going to,have to in order to compete...CM will cost upwards of 10 million....a striker of any quality will be upwards of 10-15 million....and these are the cheaper ones!
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Huddersfield are no wealthier than us, in fact our underlying income is far greater than theirs.

If they think they need to invest to stay up and the Albion are able to match them every step of the way on spending, perhaps we need to, to have any chance of staying up.
 


Icy Gull

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I really don't see Huddersfield even getting close to staying up this season.
Mind you: at the moment we're on course to head the same way.
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It will be so disappointing to have eventually got to the Premier League if we don't go for it to stay there. I am always worried that we are a bit shite at attracting quality forwards. Luckily both Zamora and Murray really wanted to come here, I wonder if anyone is going to be quite so keen this year.

To be this year's Hull, Sunderland or Boro will be gutting. I won't care too much if we go down having had a proper go at it but if we are going to try and be cute in the transfer market and bore the pants off the fans by not being able to score goals I'll be glad to return to the Championship.

Being a shit boring team in the Premier League is not a lot of fun. Lets' make sure we are entertained and get the crowd behind the team for 75 mins a game :wink:
 


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