Time to gamble

Paris · May 16, 2016

Tony Bloom and Chris Hughton deserve enormous credit for what we've done this season. Wouldn't be surprised if Bloom goes for it financially over the next few months. Need to keep our key players as well as bring in the necessary quality. Bigger contracts etc. Team after team have put two fingers up to FFP and gone up and got away with it. If you can't beat them....

Thanks to Eddie Howe for lending us Glenn Murray, when he never had any intention of playing him again this season. Hope he never requires a favour off us.

Great effort this season from the lads. So close :clap2:

UTA

nicko31 · May 16, 2016

Paris said:
Tony Bloom and Chris Hughton deserve enormous credit for what we've done this season. Wouldn't be surprised if Bloom goes for it financially over the next few months. Need to keep our key players as well as bring in the necessary quality. Bigger contracts etc. Team after team have put two fingers up to FFP and gone up and got away with it. If you can't beat them....

Thanks to Eddie Howe for lending us Glenn Murray, when he never had any intention of playing him again this season. Hope he never requires a favour off us.

Great effort this season from the lads. So close

UTA

Have no desire to join the PL if we have to cheat to get there

Mellor 3 Ward 4 · May 16, 2016

The time to gamble was in the January window.

Yes, we got Jiri and Knockheart, but we didn't get in a quality striker, which ultimately cost us.

HoveSaint · May 16, 2016

Paris said:
Tony Bloom and Chris Hughton deserve enormous credit for what we've done this season. Wouldn't be surprised if Bloom goes for it financially over the next few months. Need to keep our key players as well as bring in the necessary quality. Bigger contracts etc. Team after team have put two fingers up to FFP and gone up and got away with it. If you can't beat them....

Thanks to Eddie Howe for lending us Glenn Murray, when he never had any intention of playing him again this season. Hope he never requires a favour off us.

Great effort this season from the lads. So close

UTA

Here we go again...calls for a well-run club to suddenly go off the deep end and spunk the cash. Don't do it. Plenty of clubs have loaded up on expensive 'talent' and ended up with a worse TEAM than they had before. And then they are stuck with a stupid wage bill and still haven't reached the promised land of moronic TV money. Get the academy producing home-grown talent and do it the proper way. And bargain hunt and set up a good scouting network. Better to spend £5m per year on a Europe-wide scouting network to find undervalued/overlooked quality than to gamble on a single starlet with an attitude.

nicko31 · May 16, 2016

HoveSaint said:
Here we go again...calls for a well-run club to suddenly go off the deep end and spunk the cash. Don't do it. Plenty of clubs have loaded up on expensive 'talent' and ended up with a worse TEAM than they had before. And then they are stuck with a stupid wage bill and still haven't reached the promised land of moronic TV money. Get the academy producing home-grown talent and do it the proper way. And bargain hunt and set up a good scouting network. Better to spend £5m per year on a Europe-wide scouting network to find undervalued/overlooked quality than to gamble on some starlet with an attitude.

Top post, Boro would have been screwed if they failed to go up.

Cypriot-Seagull · May 16, 2016

As Leicester have proved money is not the answer

HoveSaint · May 16, 2016

nicko31 said:
Top post, Boro would have been screwed if they failed to go up.

Boro had Ramirez on loan from us for most of the season and he was arguably the difference between Albion and Boro in the end. That is certainly one way to go about things if the chairman really wants to spend. Find prem players who can't get a game and do a deal with their club to pay half the player's wages. We signed Ramirez from Bologna the start of the season we went up and paid £15m for him and gave him 50k a week. He has been a total non-entity for us. I am sure there are plenty of similar players who are draining a prem club's coffers without kicking a football outside of training. Just don't sign them. The loan market can be (if judiciously used) your friend.

KZNSeagull · May 16, 2016

Define gamble? Hemed (1m) scored more since Xmas than Rhodes did (8m).

The only gamble required is to keep the vast majority of the team at the club. A few clever additions as we did in the last 2 xfer windows and we will be well set.

Ecosse Exile · May 16, 2016

HoveSaint said:
Boro had Ramirez on loan from us for most of the season and he was arguably the difference between Albion and Boro in the end. That is certainly one way to go about things if the chairman really wants to spend. Find prem players who can't get a game and do a deal with their club to pay half the player's wages. We signed Ramirez from Bologna the start of the season we went up and paid £15m for him and gave him 50k a week. He has been a total non-entity for us. I am sure there are plenty of similar players who are draining a prem club's coffers without kicking a football outside of training. Just don't sign them. The loan market can be (if judiciously used) your friend.

Except that you are not allowed to loan players anymore

Paris · May 16, 2016

KZNSeagull said:
Define gamble? Hemed (1m) scored more since Xmas than Rhodes did (8m).

The only gamble required is to keep the vast majority of the team at the club. A few clever additions as we did in the last 2 xfer windows and we will be well set.

Fair point. Just the frustration of tonights result seaping out. Might need to bend the finances to keep hold of some of our gems with the odd wage increase. Our club is in safe hands that's for sure.

Paris · May 16, 2016

Cypriot-Seagull said:
As Leicester have proved money is not the answer

Not a great example. Need to look back beyond this season. I'm led to believe they were one of a number of clubs to stick their fingers up to FFP.

HoveSaint · May 16, 2016

Ecosse Exile said:
Except that you are not allowed to loan players anymore

What?

nicko31 · May 16, 2016

Cypriot-Seagull said:
As Leicester have proved money is not the answer

It was when they overspent to get promoted though

HoveSaint · May 16, 2016

nicko31 said:
It was when they overspent to get promoted though

yeah, maybe, but they just won the richest division in world football with a comparatively pocket-money investment.

Beach Hut · May 16, 2016

Cypriot-Seagull said:
As Leicester have proved money is not the answer

I would say the same about us, we just need to add a small amount of quality possibly at not a lot of cost, some very astute signings this season

Indurain's Lungs · May 16, 2016

Ecosse Exile said:
Except that you are not allowed to loan players anymore

Yes you are but the emergency loan window is going so no loaning after the deadline, I think.

Ecosse Exile · May 16, 2016

Indurain's Lungs said:
Yes you are but the emergency loan window is going so no loaning after the deadline, I think.

Ahh ok, i thought it had been stopped altogether

worthingseagull123 · May 16, 2016

Reading took a gamble with Vydra.

Did them nothing

Paris · May 16, 2016

worthingseagull123 said:
Reading took a gamble with Vydra.

Did them nothing

Can't argue with that. Though if Vydra had been playing for a team at the other end of the table this season with their tails up who knows what might have happened. Always shined for Watford. Ifs, buts and maybes.

doogie004 · May 16, 2016

Mellor 3 Ward 4 said:
The time to gamble was in the January window.

Yes, we got Jiri and Knockheart, but we didn't get in a quality striker, which ultimately cost us.

Absolutely this

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