No need for that
Ok then imagine waking up every morning knowing you’re nearly 4 grand better off than when you went to bed
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Must be very soon now surely
Bim Pepple thread. (Not called up by Canada)
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Ok then imagine waking up every morning knowing you’re nearly 4 grand better off than when you went to bed
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Seems high, they were talking finances on the radio today with the potential 1.5b package the football league are hoping to sort with the Premier league, they said average championship wage is £14k per week. Tolly is unproven at that level even though we all know how good he is. That's a very high wage for city to pay straight off on arrival from league one
I was also told Scott Twine is is on a “fair bit more”.
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It does make me wonder, even if we get new investors, how are we ever going to compete at championship level if mid table teams are now paying in excess of £25k a week for players
Very simple. We won't.
It seems that L1 and 2 are slowly starting to get their financial house in order.
But until the Championship does the same, promoted clubs will find it increasingly difficult to compete. Sadly there is little chance of that happening given the potential rewards of promotion to the PL. Which in turn will only be fixed when the PL sorts out its nonsense finances. Which will in all probability be never.
Real football has become even more fantasy than Fantasy Football League!
The PL has a lot to answer for
My main takeaway from the last fans forum was the sadness in the way Simon Hallett spoke about the state of football today. There is almost zero chance for Argyle to get to the upper levels of the game and any small possibility that remains would see the club change into something we wouldn’t recognise and for many, wouldn’t want
In online League 1 striker gossip, the top two names nearly always mentioned on other club forums are Wareham and Pepple. If and when Wareham goes (hopefully to Home Park) then Pepple will become the hottest striker prospect in the league. And hopefully more expensive
It has been proven by other clubs, that you can have lots of success by being smart in the transfer market. It's not all about money. I think the last time we gained promotion to the championship, we were very much 'rabbits in the headlights' and slightly naive to certain things. If/when we get back there again, I hope we can draw on past experiences to help us sustain ourselves as a Championship club.
We got two things wrong in the championship (1) in general terms, the belief we had some of magic formula which I think bred complacency that we did not need real experience when in fact the stars just aligned in a one off fashion for our promotion year (2) more specifically, the appointments of Foster and Rooney, for different reasons both disastrous appointments.
I agree and would add the failure to part company with Rooney about six weeks earlier than we did. Those ten games could have kept us up.
I do agree we had a slightly arrogant idea that we were smarter and different. Instead of Foster/ Rooney we should have been looking at Eustace/ Rowatt/ Alec Neil (or similar).
How elegantly articulated - and, how true.
While I agree, if Rooney had gone 10 days earlier, would Muslic have been available? And if not, would we have ended up with another basket case? It's all speculation but I would hope that the board have learned a lot from those two years and are looking back there with a different set of eyes.
Personally I am reassured by what has happened since. Yes, certainly the transition was about as smooth as a dirt track on Dartmoor, but we seem to be getting there. This off season is FAR smoother and thankfully right now, interest in Bim seems just that. I think he would benefit a LOT from another year at least at Home Park to round out his game, with Oseni following suit with another experienced, or even naturally gifted, striker for them to train against and feed off and the pair of them will massively go up in value if we make it back to the Champ next year
Personally I am reassured by what has happened since. Yes, certainly the transition was about as smooth as a dirt track on Dartmoor, but we seem to be getting there. This off season is FAR smoother and thankfully right now, interest in Bim seems just that. I think he would benefit a LOT from another year at least at Home Park to round out his game, with Oseni following suit with another experienced, or even naturally gifted, striker for them to train against and feed off and the pair of them will massively go up in value if we make it back to the Champ next year