Radrizzani take note (if you haven't already)

[WTF11]

So, you need to spend billions to get to the PL, really?

https://www.transfermarkt.com/hudder...saison_id/2016

Total spent (not offset by outgoing players) about £4.5, with about another £600k the season previous.

And then you have to spend billions to encourage players to get you promotion, really?

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....lite-1-9088678

So, it cost them next to f00k all in 2015/16/17, cost them about £9m in bonuses when promoted, and they get £92m for their pains, pretty good return on investment (key, get your transfer/recruitment policy right!).

[LeedsFTW]

So, you need to spend billions to get to the PL, really?

https://www.transfermarkt.com/hudder...saison_id/2016

Total spent (not offset by outgoing players) about £4.5, with about another £600k the season previous.

And then you have to spend billions to encourage players to get you promotion, really?

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....lite-1-9088678

So, it cost them next to f00k all in 2015/16/17, cost them about £9m in bonuses when promoted, and they get £92m for their pains, pretty good return on investment (key, get your transfer/recruitment policy right!).

Quite a handy site, also show how much Radz has invested compared to previous regimes

https://tinyurl.com/ya8grjqd

I actually didn't realize how little the club had spent on players since leaving te PL, I knew it wasnt a lot but...

[WTF11]

And if you behave like this, at a time when there is f00k all in the season to get worked up about, no wonder we think that we have to spend money, instead of give one of our own an opportunity;

https://www.footballinsider247.com/l...lection-claim/

Un-f00king-believeable

[LeedsFTW]

Not really seeing the issue with that WTF11, what upsets you about this article?

https://www.footballinsider247.com/l...lection-claim/

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Which also goes to prove how much luck/form/rub of the green/performing above ability can have on a season.

Look at Leicester great season where everything just worked.

[WTF11]

Not really seeing the issue with that WTF11, what upsets you about this article?

https://www.footballinsider247.com/l...lection-claim/

Link doesn't work.

There is no "issue", I was trying to illustrate, with facts from an objective source, that the claims that we need to spend huge sums of money to get out of the Championship are just tripe. Dudds did it on a shoestring, even compared to what we spent last transfer window, and look where that got us!. The difference is in who they brought in, and who they got to do the business of creating a team from what they bought. Both had quality and experience stamped all over them, with Wagner touted to join Klopp at Liverpool before he became Dudds manager, with no "Director of Football" to tug forelock to. Compare that to the decision to appoint Christiansen as "head coach", and to have a failed reject from Middlesborough appointed as DoF at Leeds, to whom Christiansen had to defer on all matters relating to player recruitment. The results (and differences) are clear as day. Dudds have gone from League 1 in 2012 to the Premiership in 2017, and spent next to f00k all getting there, Shows it can be done, just not with the "never mind the quality, feel the width" approach Leeds have adopted.