It really puzzles me that you get teams who are recently promoted spending 1.2 million on a player and when we get promoted we can’t even spend half of that. Yes they have a bigger ground but come on it don’t make that big of a difference surely
Barnsley sign Derby 20 year old Luke Thomas for £1,2 million.....er is that more than we have spent on players for three years ?
It really puzzles me that you get teams who are recently promoted spending 1.2 million on a player and when we get promoted we can’t even spend half of that. Yes they have a bigger ground but come on it don’t make that big of a difference surely
if you look at the players they have sold over the past few seasons plus the sell-on players its easy to see why they have cash to spend.
were not turning into billy big bowlax like our s6 friends are we?
They're owned by Chinese billionaires now so that's peanuts to them.
I think the owners have quite rightly concluded that we have to break the cycle of dropping in to league one .
It's certainly as a group of investors not great to be playing in the third tier from a business perspective .
I think this window we will see an upgrade in the recruitment but nothing outrageous .
Same philosophy of signing young hungry talent with a view to profiting and retaining sustainability but from a slightly higher market place .
We may go to £2m this window for a specific young target but I'd be amazed if we go over that .
£1.2m or 500k ? , still no guarantees when all is said and done .
So which strategy is the right one - the TS approach or the Barnsley approach? We'll know in about 9 months time! Stay tuned to this website, follks...
Being in any division is not great from a business perspective. With a handful of exceptions, English football clubs lose money and are kept in business by their owners.
The last set of accounts that I saw for Barnsley showed them owing about £18m to Patrick Cryne. Ok, they have had good fortune in the transfer market since then, but that involved selling theirr best players and may well have cost them their place in the Championship two seasons ago.
I wish Barnsley well, but they haven't discovered a secure money making formula.