El Pres posted a table on another thread that had us 10th for 13/14 and we are clearly a lot lower down the pecking order now. We are all grateful for the amount Bloom has put in but as more and more Championship club are purchased by rich owners we now struggle to compete.
I believe we had the 8th biggest wage budget in 2012/13 and the 10th in 2013/14. Although ours apparently increased last season, there were a lot of teams that spent big, which is again happening this season, so I would estimate our budget for 2014/15 and 2015/16 would be in the bottom half of...
Every year more and more Championship teams are being taken over by rich foreigners looking to get to the lucrative Premier League. It seems like we can't compete anymore.
It's all about opinions about whether they are proven or not but Stockdale and O'Grady were both late 20's when we signed them. O'Grady had one good season with Barnsley so I wouldn't say he was proven at this level and Stockdale has struggled to hold down a number one spot throughout his...
It would be nice for us to sign a proven young Championship player for the first time in years but there's no way we'd be able to match his current wages at Blackburn.