Just seen Q P R wage bill. £73.78 million for the season. If we were to go up could we survive without going down the same route.
I would be horrified if we started paying an average centre back like Chris Samba £120K a week!
Yes you have to improve your squad and bring in better players but clubs like Swansea and Norwich seem to have done it sensibly. QPR are a disgrace but they'll probably piss all over the Championship next season, they need to anyway.
I think that they will implode, the next Portsmouth.
It's hard to feel angry at Fernandes though, just seems like a good guy but has been incredibly naive and didn't seem to learn his lessons, window after window.
I can't see many clubs wanting queuing up to try and get some of those flops, the only player I can really see going is Remy. The next Portsmouth might not be far off depending on how deep the owners pockets are willing to go.
Remy really is outstanding. God knows how he ended up at QPR, he should've had a move to a top European club. I reckon his agent needs the boot.
It's possible. Fernandes has already had to bring in £15m of extra financing from external sources and the value of the club has plummeted with their relegation.
Another Portsmouth is a possibility although the "example" of Leeds is perhaps a more relevant one of a club financially over-reaching themselves leading to a fire-sale of players and relegation.
It's reminiscent of that Portsmouth player that demanded his wages in full and nearly bankrupted the club.
FFP?No - they will really go for it next season (can't afford not to)... I expect to see them make a couple of stellar signings.
It seems to be the new world way.
A Championship club that has been there for a few seasons, or that has come up cannot afford or attract a Premiership squad.
A Premiership side coming down has such mega and first year loaded parachute payments they can add to their Premiership squad and so return to the top flight at the first attempt.
If they don't they then face either financial ruin or have to dismantle their squad and then become another Championship side that can't afford or attract Prem players...
It will become increasingly polarised I think.
FFP?
I doubt, even with the parachute money there is any leighway for big signing, IMO Harry will walk, and QPR will implode and go strai ght down to L1.
Reading, on the other hand, might go straight back up, along with Newcastle :hey: