Bevendean Hillbilly
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Merson tips us to go down
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Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Can he tip us to go down next year as well,please ?
Let's predict his predictions now:
1. Wolves to finish top half.
2. Hudd and Cardiff to go down, plus Derby or Boro to drop should either make it to the PL.
3. ManC to win the PL.
4. ManU second.
5. Sunderland to win League One.
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
It won't be easy for us again. We would like to think we may progress a little from this year but we may not be as lucky with injuries and we may struggle. I say "may" I wonder what the bookies will think. I'd settle for 15th or 16th
True about our great luck with injuries.
But we have another £100m of ADDITIONAL income to build squad quality and numbers this summer.
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
That's all well and good but a good few other teams will have that amount of money to throw around. It doesn't put us at a great advantage over all the teams. Does it?
This season we (with Hudd) had a huge disadvantage with a thin squad and some players that found the PL a struggle at times.
Next season that squad/quality disadvantage is narrowed.
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
Return of the Rev
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Creaky
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Not sure there’ll be an additional £100m - the club made a loss of nearly £39m last year - can’t see TB accepting a similar loss this year - take into account the higher wage bill this year and the capital costs incurred pre-season with the lights, press box etc. And there won’t be a whole lot left.
Were we that lucky? Didn't Kayal miss the start, with Sidwell injured all season, meaning we only had Propper and Stephens with no subs? They formed a good partnership through necessity. Didn't March and Baldock also miss a chunk? Would have been nice if Baldock started as he finished last season, and competed for a place. Goldson missed the start too right?
Nixonator
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Our budget will need to be similar EVERY year to stay up. You spend to tread water in this division.
I expect it will be, but for fewer players.
That was old Championship financial results:
Income £29m
Regular costs £56m
= Loss £27m
(Then less exceptional promotion costs of £9m).
PL club income is at least £135m.
Creaky
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That was the FFP loss - total loss was £38.9m
https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/2017/december/albion-accounts-201617/
No, with the £9m (will never happen again) promotion costs, my figures were the audited results per Companies House.
Separately, to give an indication of our club income 2017/18 and 2018/19, here's Southampton's. Deduct say £30m for their greater broadcasting income/high PL finish prize money .... and we can see how our club income is easily £140m (compared to £29m in the Championship):
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Thats up to the recruitment team not all about money
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
I think we were....when you look at the spine of the ‘regular’ starting eleven we lost only Stephens for any reasonable length of time and that wasn’t too long
*Gullsworth*
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Agreed it is up to our recruitment team, look how much of a gem Gross was. But financially we will only be better off to a very few teams.....Cardiff being one, Wolves are minted, third promoted team.....anyone's guess. So having an increased income will not give us a financial advantage.
But it will allow us to buy our second 'batch' of top flight quality players. Last season Palace, Bmuff and the rest had the huge advantage of having built PL squad over many windows. If they improve that again it will be in small increments, but PL quality players will have to leave their squads to balance numbers. In contrast if we buy say 4 quality players to replace Skalak, Hunnemaier, Sidwell and Hemed, that's a big step forward for us. We have the money to do just that.