Deathy They will take second. Or they should. I know we have many a blinkered Reading fan on here, but they're squad is so much stronger than hours.
But we've proved before that you don't necessarily need the best squad to get promoted, but more often than not, you do.
Love that!Smoking Kills Dancing DoeTBMRoyal Rother Phillips, McSheffrey, Bent, Jerome, McFadden, O'Connor, Sinclair, Boyd, Bouazza - all strikers?
Unless they are planning on selling a couple....im sure they wouldn't bring in that many if they werent planning on playing them!
Sinclair, Bouazza, McSheffrey and McFaden can all play wide. Still a lot, can't see injuries effeecting them up front though...
Victor Meldrew On the question of Birmingham, Bouazza and Sinclair are only loan signings and they will get good money for Jerome to help fund the purchase of Boyd.
The people who run Birmingham strike me as shrewd and it looks as though they are investing the SKY TV money knowing that if the fail this year there is still more parachute money next year as well.
For whatever reason we have decided not to invest the SKY money in the squad.
To suggest that Birminham are heading for administration striks me as a bit premature and probably wide of the mark.
BTW wouldn't mind Jerome for us.
Victor Meldrew On the question of Birmingham, Bouazza and Sinclair are only loan signings and they will get good money for Jerome to help fund the purchase of Boyd.
The people who run Birmingham strike me as shrewd and it looks as though they are investing the SKY TV money knowing that if the fail this year there is still more parachute money next year as well.
For whatever reason we have decided not to invest the SKY money in the squad.
To suggest that Birminham are heading for administration striks me as a bit premature and probably wide of the mark.
BTW wouldn't mind Jerome for us.
papereyesVictor Meldrew On the question of Birmingham, Bouazza and Sinclair are only loan signings and they will get good money for Jerome to help fund the purchase of Boyd.
The people who run Birmingham strike me as shrewd and it looks as though they are investing the SKY TV money knowing that if the fail this year there is still more parachute money next year as well.
For whatever reason we have decided not to invest the SKY money in the squad.
To suggest that Birminham are heading for administration striks me as a bit premature and probably wide of the mark.
BTW wouldn't mind Jerome for us.
and Birmingham's owner is in a very recession proof business.
winchester_royal LOL. Looks like Allardyce is going to try to assemble his old Bolton team again.
VisionVictor Meldrew On the question of Birmingham, Bouazza and Sinclair are only loan signings and they will get good money for Jerome to help fund the purchase of Boyd.
The people who run Birmingham strike me as shrewd and it looks as though they are investing the SKY TV money knowing that if the fail this year there is still more parachute money next year as well.
For whatever reason we have decided not to invest the SKY money in the squad.
To suggest that Birminham are heading for administration striks me as a bit premature and probably wide of the mark.
BTW wouldn't mind Jerome for us.
I'd like Jerome too but its not gonna happen.
They have a large squad most of whom they are still paying prem wages for yet they still supplement their squad with Premiership loans. Phillips and Carsley certainly don't come cheap. Their attendances are not following their spending pattern either..
They are the last club (in my memory) that bounced straight back up automatically so i guess they feel this is the way to go about it but their outlay is way above that of Charlton and Watford who like most clubs find themselves in bother if they haven't reduced the wage bill to manageable levels following relegation. Like us they cashed in on a couple of players like Kapo and Muamba but they spent pretty heavily to stay up in the last transfer window and that didn't help them.
I think they're precisely the sort of club that will find themselves in bother if they don't go straight back up. Whether its quite administration or not i don't know but the second set of parachute payments isn't easing the problems at Charlton or Watford.
Victor Meldrew Having read your post I decided to have a look at Birminham's squad details and in fact ,unless you think we have a large squad,their "large squad" is slightly LESS than ours.
You and I don't know whether Birmingham are still paying Premiership wages nor do we know if Reading are still paying Premiership wages so it's wrong to make such assumptions.
Dare I say also that they MAY have more valuable assets to sell if need be whereas we,apart from Doyle,have nobody worth much more than £1million-I am thinking of Ridgewell,Larssen ,Jeromeand McFadden in particular-and they must feel that the gamble is worth taking.
You use Charlton and Watford as instances of how it can all go wrong although now the parachute payments are even higher so from our club's point of view (and that's the only one I really care about) I would have thought that new capital from the sale of Kitson,Shorey and Sonko at about £10 million plus the parachute payment plus the supposedly unused portion of SKY money from last season presumably means that if we want to take a bit of a gamble we can afford to do so.
We didn't gamble to stay up (or rather, took an outrageous gamble on a player who had never played in England to take the place of our most expensive player who also had never played in England) so I wonder if we will gamble to go up.
Whether we do or not I find it sanctimonious that Birmingham should be derided for taking such a gamble.
Alan Partridge Birmingham have 23 first team players looking at their list with 6 or 7 young lads on top of that, it's certainly a fair few less than Reading. I would also heavily doubt that many if any of them are on the same money they were on last year. Maybe by having this fairly small squad in terms of numbers they can afford to pay a bit more for them. I don't know their financial state but I heavily doubt David Gold for 1 and also how tight Sullivan can be are likely to put the entire clubs possible future on them going straight back up. What I would say is on paper they certainly have the best squad in terms of experience and quality in the division and they ought to be a top 2 side at the end of the season. For what ever reason although they are 3rd they certainly haven't found the same fluency that Wolves and Reading have.
I suppose that could be down to having a fairly recently new manager with new ideas who has brought in a lot of players in a short space of time.
VisionAlan Partridge Birmingham have 23 first team players looking at their list with 6 or 7 young lads on top of that, it's certainly a fair few less than Reading. I would also heavily doubt that many if any of them are on the same money they were on last year. Maybe by having this fairly small squad in terms of numbers they can afford to pay a bit more for them. I don't know their financial state but I heavily doubt David Gold for 1 and also how tight Sullivan can be are likely to put the entire clubs possible future on them going straight back up. What I would say is on paper they certainly have the best squad in terms of experience and quality in the division and they ought to be a top 2 side at the end of the season. For what ever reason although they are 3rd they certainly haven't found the same fluency that Wolves and Reading have.
I suppose that could be down to having a fairly recently new manager with new ideas who has brought in a lot of players in a short space of time.
On paper theyn do have the better players because a fair few were established premiership players. I would be extremely surprised if their wage bill was not the highest in this division. Big (name) signings which an awful lot of this squad are do not come cheap. I doubt that Phillips and Carsley wouldn't have left the safety of the Premier league without being offered a fair few bob.
Current wage bill also bumped up by several loan signings at any one time. Once again not saying they would necesarily be heading for administration but their policy next season would be drastically different. I'm also not sure how much the likes of McFadden, Jerome, Ridgewell & Larsson would actually fetch in comparison to Doyle, Hunt, Harper & Rosenior.
I doubt that Phillips and Carsley wouldn't have left the safety of the Premier league without being offered a fair few bob.
readingbedding Why would Rangers even think about selling a striker that has twenty goals already this season, and has been the their top scorer for three seasons running?
Unless they needed the money.
If he does go, I would bet that it will go down well up there.
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