It looks like the Championship will be welcoming Aston Villa, Newcastle and either Sunderland or Norwich back into the fold for the new campaign.
The potentially weakest team there is Norwich and they've proven capable of returning straight back to the top flight very recently. The other three, if run properly, can dominate the division solely by the strength of their gate receipts.
What does that mean for the rest of us? Football being the game that it is, there will be the usual 'unexpected results' against bottom of the table teams, that upset the form book.
However what should be as clear as daylight even to our owner is that two out of the three relegated teams will undoubtedly be challenging strongly at the top of the table. It will be a very strong league with one of the top two taking 90 odd points as Champions.
So if we're limited to spending £6/7m to stay within F.F.P what is the point of 'going for it' ? We are quite likely to lose our top two players by next Christmas transfer window at the latest. So that's Lansbury and Assombalonga gone hopefully for at least £10M for both of them.
We need to consolidate and build a squad capable of staying in this division imo. Otherwise I see a further spell of F.F.P consigning us to Div' One.
Next Season
posted on 18/4/16
It might do, Ray; but a new owner wouldn't guarantee it.
posted on 18/4/16
Nope but the current owner almost looks less likely. Apparently there is interest in the club
posted on 18/4/16
I agree with redfor50yrs. We need all those kings in place before we can think about challenging for top half of be table.
I seriously think with fawaz we are in danger of going down next year. He will undoubtedly believe we should be looking for promotion. However even if we had unlimited funds there will be so many teams with money to spend we wouldn't get the players anyway. Lansbury will definitely be off. So we will already be weaker. We need to focus on a decent manager and give him time to build something.
posted on 18/4/16
*things not kings!
posted on 18/4/16
RAE, I have read a couple of things that suggest we're willing to risk another embargo (if we do come out)
posted on 18/4/16
I read something like that too Ray, but I really hop it isn't true. We lose so many players each season through injury that we could spend £100 million for next season and still have no one fit to play!
posted on 18/4/16
Lansbury's recent comments suggest he wasn't a fan of Dougie. Wouldn't be surprised if he does leave but don't think he's quite as good as he thinks he is.
posted on 19/4/16
Big spending by clubs is a bad sign.
Clubs spend big to compensate for the manager's inadequacies. If we get a manager for next season who tells Fawaz that the squad isn't good enough we need to sign three new players for £7million; and then he says the team needs time to gel when they get off to a poor start; and then when we are in the bottom half in January says we need to spend another five mill. He will be sacked by Fawaz in March. Quite rightly because he is a poor manager.
We need a manager who comes in and looks at the squad and realises that a spine consisting of DDV, Mancienne, Lansbury, and Britt isn't half bad and he can build a team around it. And then sees he has Matt Mills, Danny Pinillos, David Vaughan, Ben Osborn, Dexter, and Matt Fryatt and thinks "we're pretty much there"; and then he gets them playing to their potential most weeks.
Spending will never be the way to go for clubs like Forest. We should not be chasing a quick fix. Slow steady progress over a number of years is the only way we can achieve promotion and sustained (relative) success.
posted on 19/4/16
Fawaz was quoted in the Nottingham Post saying the new manager won't be given specific budget but will be backed. There was something more recently as well.
I suspect it's going to be up to the manager whether he risks FFP again, which to be honest is not on
posted on 19/4/16
comment by Ray's Sarcastic Tone of Voice - FAH OUT (U18611)
posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Fawaz was quoted in the Nottingham Post saying the new manager won't be given specific budget but will be backed. There was something more recently as well.
I suspect it's going to be up to the manager whether he risks FFP again, which to be honest is not on
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Well, it rhymes with backed anyway Ray