[Albion] Promotion to the PL was worth £200M, or so we kept being reminded.....

Gazz15 said:

He's a gambler alright, he often risks all on the "River Card'!! (For the benefit of the illiterate) Sussex Nomad

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WhingForPresident said:

We did spend a good chunk of money in the summer but I think the only signings we can agree on that have proven to be good deals are Groß and Ryan.

Pröpper has good technique but is more suited to an attacking role, and therefore isn't much of an upgrade, if at all, on Kayal in a two-man midfield. Too flakey to play in his current position as well in my opinion. Hasn't even had a chance to play further forward.

Izquierdo has looked good in patches but isn't being allowed to play his natural attacking game and looks very pissed off about it. Took ages for him to get a start as well.

Suttner has looked good of late after a bit of a slow start but has been rotated far too often to really get going, with the inferior Bong getting in ahead of him at random.

Schelotto should've started yesterday after doing well recently but fell victim to rotation again for Bruno, despite him being appalling of late. Originally only given a chance playing out of position.

Brown didn't go according to plan, obviously. Played out of position for 10 mins at a time and also looked pissed off throughout his whole spell

So really, I'd say the problem has been that we haven't used our new signings in the right manner and many haven't been given the chance to settle in properly with regular appearances, which begs the question of why we signed them at all considering they don't seem to fit the system CH wants to play. None of them look like bad players, just looks like they've been mismanaged and used in the wrong way to me.

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super-seagulls said:

And are you suggesting he risks the club’s future by selling to rich foreign investors, just so we can stay in the PL?

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jimhigham said:

Hasn't Tony sunk something like £250 of his own cash into the club at this point.

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Westdene Seagull said:

Some of us remember 1979 - 1983 ...... thank god Tony does as well !!!!

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Tom Hark said:

Now I'm no football finance expert, but I'm pretty sure it was a bit more than that

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OzMike said:

I thought that 90 million was taken out before the season started to service some of the debt.

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Westdene Seagull said:

Some of us remember 1979 - 1983 ...... thank god Tony does as well !!!!

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Westdene Seagull said:

Some of us remember 1979 - 1983 ...... thank god Tony does as well !!!!

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Publius Ovidius said:

He was 8 in 1979!

I know he is a financial genius, but I very much doubt he would have been sat at his school desk working out how much promotion and relegation would affect our balance sheet....or maybe he did.

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WhingForPresident said:

We did spend a good chunk of money in the summer but I think the only signings we can agree on that have proven to be good deals are Groß and Ryan.

Pröpper has good technique but is more suited to an attacking role, and therefore isn't much of an upgrade, if at all, on Kayal in a two-man midfield. Too flakey to play in his current position as well in my opinion. Hasn't even had a chance to play further forward.

Izquierdo has looked good in patches but isn't being allowed to play his natural attacking game and looks very pissed off about it. Took ages for him to get a start as well.

Suttner has looked good of late after a bit of a slow start but has been rotated far too often to really get going, with the inferior Bong getting in ahead of him at random.

Schelotto should've started yesterday after doing well recently but fell victim to rotation again for Bruno, despite him being appalling of late. Originally only given a chance playing out of position.

Brown didn't go according to plan, obviously. Played out of position for 10 mins at a time and also looked pissed off throughout his whole spell

So really, I'd say the problem has been that we haven't used our new signings in the right manner and many haven't been given the chance to settle in properly with regular appearances, which begs the question of why we signed them at all considering they don't seem to fit the system CH wants to play. None of them look like bad players, just looks like they've been mismanaged and used in the wrong way to me.

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Publius Ovidius said:

He was 8 in 1979!

I know he is a financial genius, but I very much doubt he would have been sat at his school desk working out how much promotion and relegation would affect our balance sheet....or maybe he did.

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Westdene Seagull said:

I think you might have missed the point. During that period we spent silly money, particularly on contracts, trying to stay up. It was the catalyst for Archer, Bellotti, Hereford etc. Yet we still have idiots suggesting we should just spend big in hope it keeps us up. Errrr ..... no thanks. If we go down then we go down but we still have a club to support .... we nearly didn't previously.

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Lower West Stander said:

We obviously need someone else in - but I’m getting ever more frustrated by not giving Baldock a chance.

Goal scoring has been our biggest problem this season so I really don’t understand why he isn’t at least given a chance.

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Publius Ovidius said:

Oh I see.

Yeah I broadly agree with that. However money is the name of the game these days. Yes it doesn't guarantee you survival unless you are one of the established clubs...I think a lot of it is the skill of the manager...I.e Roy hodgson.

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Gazz15 said:

LOL are we talking about the same clueless old duffer who disgraced England at the last World Cup & 2 Euro Championships?

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Gazz15 said:

Yes, the one who absolutely flopped at England, Liverpool & Fulham to name but a few.

Even Pardew would have got a tune out of the Palace squad.

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