2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

[GrandOldTeam]

But even if we had cash, we couldn’t really spend it given PSR issues arising from the ludicrous contracts that are still running down (Keane and Doucoure for example) and a pathetic commercial strategy in terms of trying to increase revenue in recent years. At the same time, we have signed NDaye, Beto, Lindstrom in the last 18 months to name three. So there has been some inbound activity too.

The last 2 teams we've played have spent hundreds of millions the past few years, net and have 2/3 players who cost more than our match day squad.

Weve made profit every window the last 4, and a profit in total over the last 5 years.

We've started the last 2 games with 3 loan players starting, and 4 loan players all getting minutes.

It's not sustainable.

 

[matty1878]

My point is that it doesn’t matter who we play up top if we don’t modify our tactics and style

and who does the latter mate…

 

[Joey66]

….i’ve continually said it’s a lot more difficult with limited spend but it’s when a top DOF earns his big bucks. I don’t see that as ‘strange’, it’s just that I think he gets an easy ride.

It’s a reasoned viewpoint even if it’s only me making it away from Dyche mania.

Sack anyone involved in the first team - sweep the decks clean if not - nothing will change !

 

[matty1878]

The last 2 teams we've played have spent hundreds of millions the past few years and have 2/3 players who cost more than our squad.

Weve made profit the last 5.

We've started the last 2 games with 3 loan players starting, and 4 loan players all getting minutes.

It's not sustainable.

that’s why the new owners have work to do

doesn’t help if you have a manager that hasn’t a clue at what hes meant to do and blames everyone else

 

[MikeH72]

The last 2 teams we've played have spent hundreds of millions the past few years, net and have 2/3 players who cost more than our match day squad.

Weve made profit the last 5.

We've started the last 2 games with 3 loan players starting, and 4 loan players all getting minutes.

It's not sustainable.

Chelsea have spent more than Ipswich and lost comfortably to them

 

[matty1878]

Sack anyone involved in the first team - sweep the decks clean if not - nothing will change !

a million % no more old guard of anyone

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Chelsea have spent more than Ipswich and lost comfortably to them

Chelsea's starting 11 can cost more than our new stadium

 

[MikeH72]

Chelsea's starting 11 cost more than our new stadium

How did Ipswich beat them then?

 

[Eggs]

Sack anyone involved in the first team - sweep the decks clean if not - nothing will change !

….welcome to the club, Joey.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

How did Ipswich beat them then?

They scored more goals than them.

But you'll find over the course of 38 games the teams that spend money generally finish near the top and the teams that don't generally finish near the bottom.

 

[Joey66]

a million % no more old guard of anyone

Baines is doing an ok job being strpped of players sent out on loan or sold while the deadbeats in the 1st team stay around like a bad smell,,,,,

 

[matty1878]

Baines is doing an ok job being strpped of players sent out on loan or sold while the deadbeats in the 1st team stay around like a bad smell,,,,,

does dyche know we have a under 21s?

 

[ToffeeTim]

The last 2 teams we've played have spent hundreds of millions the past few years, net and have 2/3 players who cost more than our match day squad.

Weve made profit every window the last 4, and a profit in total over the last 5 years.

We've started the last 2 games with 3 loan players starting, and 4 loan players all getting minutes.

It's not sustainable.

The lack of investment though makes the times we have spent actual money on players in the last 2 seasons even more frustrating.

Chermiti - who knows he might come good in time, but to spend 15m last summer on a player for 3 or 4 years down the line, was just poor strategy.

Beto - clearly not good enough. It seems we only signed him because of the low / zero up front fee. But the problem is he will still cost 25m and is not worth that money, so it was a bad decision.

O Brien - the decision to spend our remaining summer budget on another centre half will forever baffle me.

Those 3 deals alone are well over 50m quid and haven't improved the team at all.

Yes not much money has been spent in PL terms, but we haven't spent nothing either. The money invested has been wasted, and you can't have that with a limited budget.

 

[Eggs]

Baines is doing an ok job being strpped of players sent out on loan or sold while the deadbeats in the 1st team stay around like a bad smell,,,,,

….i think he manages the U18s, not sure any of that group are sent on loan. A few of the actual loanees are keepers and a few are seeing out their contracts.

 

[Dublin blue 75]

The last 2 teams we've played have spent hundreds of millions the past few years, net and have 2/3 players who cost more than our match day squad.

Weve made profit every window the last 4, and a profit in total over the last 5 years.

We've started the last 2 games with 3 loan players starting, and 4 loan players all getting minutes.

It's not sustainable.

Agreed on the sustainability point. We need to have HUGE commercial team driven increases in revenue for next season to enable us start spending in a PSR compliant way.

Friedkin team must have a 10-15m per season naming rights deal for the stadium pending. Add another maybe 5m a year with smaller commercial deals in the stadium such as food and Bev partners coming on stream and we could be looking at a 25-30m boost in revenue as a baseline.

We have decades of catching up to do after two decades of BK and the last period of him and Moshiri. Scandalous.