And just to add, covid hit hard for all clubs and left us with a £30m black hole. The sale of Buendia basically covered that so the £50m+ we’ve spent wasn’t exactly frugal
And when you don’t have the money, then you risking the long term future of the club
People think that the £100m+ you get for promotion means you can spend that on transfers, forgetting all the other costs involved like bonuses and commitment to years of huge wages they’d demand. You could...
The money we had was spent on promotion bonuses, new contracts,
paying off debt and redeveloping the training ground so not sure what we could have done to spend wisely unless you think we should have gambled (tried that and nearly crippled us) and left a substandard training ground which...
“Clueless,” was the verdict of one first-team player, in a series of leaked WhatsApp messages seen by The Athletic. Hughton’s attempts to lift morale had not worked. “Comes in after the game and says we were brilliant until the goal,” read one message. “We had no ****ing shots.”
The player’s...
Skipp was a loan without an option to buy who was one of our best players last season and who you mentioned we’d lost - we wouldn’t be spending over £50m on non league players - yes it’s looking like a miracle maybe but Skipp and Buendia being ridiculously good last season and impossible to keep...
I don’t think the most active prem club in the transfer market can be accused of lack of ambition
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/09/09/no-longer-going-war-without-gun-inside-story-norwichs-11-new/
Also the Murphy twins for very good money before that
I would expect Aarons to leave too if an acceptable offer comes in as it’s believed we made a similar agreement to sell him this summer
Yep brought through loads of first teamers on recent years when before that the academy barely produced anyone. Also the last promotion enabled us to spend millions on the training ground and we’re the first English club to get the soccer bot 360...
We can’t afford to keep him on the 75K Villa are paying him every week now. Also there was an agreement with him when he sulked at the start of last season that he could leave if his valuation was met this summer. You appear under the impression we just take the prem money and don’t invest...
We’ve been terrible since the restart, zero threat up front with Pukki looking as
dangerous as Ricky Van Wolfswinkel. Would be quite incredible if Brighton can’t score at least a couple and very unlikely you’ll be conceding today. 2-0 or 3-0 Brighton for me
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Norwich have played the European champions, Europa League champions, Premier League champions, 8th place West Ham and Spurs conquerers, Newcastle in the first 5 games. Not a start where you’d expect to create loads. While Sheff Utd have played 3 relegation candidates