sir albion
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I thought it was £50 aswell,must have changed it!!!
Selling our best players, replacing them with players who have just been relegated, keeping the deadwood at the club, playing the hard game to try buy players until the point they move else where, I see no ambition here and TB's 5 year plan to get us in the prem should be more like a 5 year plan to stay in the championship.
This argument keeps cropping up and I haven't got the foggiest why it matters - does it mean they're shit? Hughes and Stockdale were relegated from the Prem, does it mean they're bad players? If they're good enough, then I couldn't give a shit if they came from Real Madrid or Rochdale.
Where did this penny-pinching come from ? Our wage bill last year was one of the higher ones in the league. But we still struggle to compete.
How did you workout we had one of the highest wage bills ? Where are your figures to back that statement up ?
Using a topical comparison and based on both club's most recent published accounts - ie for 2012/13 (GP's final season):
Turnover (income) - BHA £23.39m; Burnley £15.30m
Total wage bill - BHA £21.06m; Burnley £15.37m
Annual loss - BHA £14.76m; Burnley £7.80m
Accumulated debt - BHA £52.21m; Burnley £15.42m
As a footnote, the BHA figures don't include anything related to the stadium or training ground builds.
Very interesting. In particular our squad of players cost £5 Million more than Burnley's. Burnley's squad succeeded in winning promotion and our squad failed to win promotion. Facts are facts, its the players who failed, not the fans who turned up with the highest gates in the division by a country mile, or the board who provided the funds for a squad costing £5 Million more than Burnley's. So Buckley, Ulloa, Bridcutt, well all this wailing and gnashing of teeth, but they were so good for us that they won us promotion.. except they didnt.
And Derby almost managed it - but Clough had built a squad of players. We need some managerial stability to build a squad and let's look to the lower divisions.
Err..........you are a year out of date. The figures quoted are for 2012/13, and Burnley were promoted in 2013/14.
Perhaps a better parallel would be with Palace, their wage bill in 2012/13 was £18.8 million, compared to ours of £21.1 million. Yet they were promoted after our players, a bit like you, failed to turn up at the Amex.
117 grounds watching them since the 70's WCP
So no exposure to the Albion before the 70's then? Explains allot. Bloody JCL's.
Yes.Am I the only one who wouldn't mind us playing in the third division again?
Am I the only one who wouldn't mind us playing in the third division again?
most of us would be ok with that , but will Tony be able to afford to run the club and its facilities with the reduced income when it happens
Burke has to do the decent thing and leave now.
My particular favourite.
What a bunch of bedwetters.