They throw silly money at everyone, because they seem to be run by people with no common sense at all.
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Ipswich now signing Liam Delap from Man City for 15m +5m in add ons. He was on loan at Hull last year 8 goals in Championship.
They are spending money 20m for Hutchinson and then 40m for the two lads from Hull (might only get one of them it looks like).
Be interesting to see if the media take a pop at them like they did us for daring to spend money.
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They are spending money 20m for Hutchinson and then 40m for the two lads from Hull (might only get one of them it looks like).
Be interesting to see if the media take a pop at them like they did us for daring to spend money.
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Bobby The Brain
Weasel
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
It is also an interesting recruitment strategy considering so much money is being spent. Yes it’s a league they will know but they are going into a league they don’t know & don’t know if the players will make the jump.
We saw ourselves how off the pace some top championship players ended up at this level. It’s a completely different game, things you regard in the championship as X factors are basics.
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Reeks of Burnley 23/24.
redforest
Geoff Thomas
Yep, The plastics of Brentford and Bournmouthare my 1 & 2 for relegation with Leicester and Everton fighting for the third spot. Hopefully we will be established as a dull mid table team…
Robertson
Geoff Thomas
A Fulham collapse without Paulinha would also go down a treat with me.
GOBIAS
Ian Bowyer
I really hope they stay up, not at our expense obviously.
But I do question it. They have loads of players with question marks over the step up. When we went up players who I assumed would step up didn’t. I don’t think Greaves will personally.
Any Time Now
Jack Armstrong
They're going down
Quntib Hollox
Jack Burkitt
Home form will be the key factor. After Luton nearly stayed up last year I will never right off anyone’s chances again.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
You would probably have to define nearly!
They only got 1 more point than Southampton when they finished bottom the year before & Luton were probably getting 95-100% out of the players they had.
I think they have one eye on ensuring they have a very strong squad in place for the Championship should they be relegated. Their hope would be that they get promoted again but be in a stronger position to stay up.
GOBIAS
Ian Bowyer
I think you could be right. I think that is sensible to get players you hope will step up, the ones with youth and drive who want the platform to show they can shine in the premier league. Then it either works and you stay up, or it doesn’t and you have a good squad to go down with, one or two might even earn a move that gives you even more money to spend and you can probably hoover up anyone who has performed well in the football league that year, again give them a platform.
Mr. Blonde
John Robertson
Did they though?
Or did people just hype them up because they had a handful of good results around Christmas / New Year?
They spent most of the season in the bottom three, finished six points adrift of safety, which would've been ten were it not for our points deduction
Quntib Hollox
Jack Burkitt
Well they kept us sweating til the final week so I’d say however you look at it they ran us close.
Baronvon
Jack Burkitt
Luton were a bit of a strange team last season. I was convinced they'd stay up at our expense right at the death - especially given how the media would hype them up so often. We never quite seemed to be able to pull away from them and the points deduction just seemed like another blow of grim inevitability against us. Further to this, given how we failed to beat them twice despite dominating both matches, it just felt like fate that they'd catch us.
However, in reality, they barely won a game after Christmas and were only kept even remotely in the hunt by a combination of our points deduction, inexplicably bad luck with referees and a remarkable ability to shoot ourselves in the foot at the worst possible moment. Even keeping the points deduction in place, with a bit more luck and composure they'd have been nowhere near us.
I'm honestly not too sure how the things will pan out next season, especially with regards the promoted teams. We thought we'd cobbled together a solid team in our first season back but it was far more difficult than we could have possibly imagined. Pragmatism is needed if you're going to have any chance.
As for Forest, I'd be absolutely thrilled to bits if we managed a season of mid table obscurity. I'm not sure my heart can take another season of turmoil and perpetual torment.
However, in reality, they barely won a game after Christmas and were only kept even remotely in the hunt by a combination of our points deduction, inexplicably bad luck with referees and a remarkable ability to shoot ourselves in the foot at the worst possible moment. Even keeping the points deduction in place, with a bit more luck and composure they'd have been nowhere near us.
I'm honestly not too sure how the things will pan out next season, especially with regards the promoted teams. We thought we'd cobbled together a solid team in our first season back but it was far more difficult than we could have possibly imagined. Pragmatism is needed if you're going to have any chance.
As for Forest, I'd be absolutely thrilled to bits if we managed a season of mid table obscurity. I'm not sure my heart can take another season of turmoil and perpetual torment.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
I think we were only sweating so much because of the uncertainty of the points deduction paired with us fearing the worst.
If you strip away the points deduction it was never even close. Put it this way, were we ever afraid of Burnley catching us? Because they only finished 2 points behind Luton.
Professor Wolfgang Schnell BSc. PhD.
Fulchester United
If we'd beaten Luton early in the season it would never have been an issue.
GOBIAS
Ian Bowyer
We put a lot of unnecessary pressure on ourselves last season. We should have pushed on a lot and deserved some more points in games (that being a glaring one) and before we knew it we were in a silly relegation battle and with the points deduction looming the pressure grew again.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Yeah that is kinda my point too, we shot outselves in the foot serveral times both on & off the pitch & they were still in touching distance throughout.
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
I don't think Bournemouth will be near it again this season. Brentford possibly and especially if they lose the Ladbrokes man.
Listen 'ere young man
Jack Burkitt
Brentford, Fulham, Wolves, Everton, Palace maybe and the 3 promoted sides, could all be in it.
If we can just sort out the defence a bit and occasionally hold on to a lead till the end, we could easily have a stress free season.
If we can just sort out the defence a bit and occasionally hold on to a lead till the end, we could easily have a stress free season.
Baronvon
Jack Burkitt
Difficult to say what could happen to Brentford. I know a lot of the focus is on the apparently inevitable exit of Ivan Toney coupled with the fact that they weren't far from danger last time out - but they did have a lot of injuries in key areas. I seem to remember for a decent chunk of the season they basically had no fit full backs.
Canadian_red
Jack Armstrong
Muric to Ipswich for 8M, which means they're going down and perhaps the 10m or whatever it was for Vlach was close to market.