Vasquez Rich

Once again, all I heard on the radio before the game from the Radio Sheff guy and summariser, and once again the manager, was how every team raises their game when they play SWFC... "it's their cup final" , even if this is true, I think,if this is endemic in the club and the people they talk to..  which it appears to be, then the players will just think they are indeed better than any of their opposition... not a good mentality in League 1. 

Increasingly the PL will end in tears for more clubs, spending 100s of millions on players, irrespective of FFP rules, for more and more clubs means that some of them will not be in the top 4, nor the top 6... without that (probably top 4) the spending is unsustainable over any decent period of time.... when the owners spend that amount and don't get the desired return (not all of the clubs can)... it will start to go t*ts up.

Serious question

I have listened to a couple of commentaries and interviews, in all of them the  idea that all the clubs in L1 see SWFC as "their cup final", therefore the owls have to be "on it" all the time at every game. Heard this from the Radio Sheff guys, the summariser (Pearson?) and even from the manager.

How much do you think this affects the players?

Do they think they are better than the other clubs and just have to turn up for the points?

Wonder if he can avoid a further relegation season.

There's a fundamental problem with the concept of "spend what you want"....  as I have pointed out on a few occasions... take the Championship...

Let's say in any given year some chairman think...

"I'll spend 100 million on players, I know that if we get promoted I can get that back"... so 7 of them invest 100 million,  more than they earn, but worth it if they go up... but

Only 3 go up, and usually at least 1 of them is one of the relegated sides... leaving 5 or so clubs in a lot of debt, but nevermind they can invest another 100 million and go up next year... only (yep) only 3 of them can, and there's another 3 come down.... 

See where this is going, eventually some of these chairmen will want some, or all, of their money back.....   clubs sell grounds, sell players, go bust....    

The rules are there to hopefully prevent that... despite several clubs trying to find loopholes in the rules....

Hodgy was a great keeper... but I doubt he'd make it to a Prem Club (he played with Utd in the old Div1) as he was quite small for a keeper by todays standards... he was 5'8"? Something like that.

Was born and raised round there, only ever went into that pub once,, before I even got to the bar.... a fight kicked off between a bunch of guys....   I turned round and went back out.. never to return.

"Holding them back..."

When you are a league 1 club and a Premier League club comes in for one of your young academy products for a few million quid.... said club would be foolish to stand in the way of that move..

Walker

Naughton

Lowton

Calvert-Lewin

MacGuire

Brooks

Ramsdale

I'm sure there's a few more...

Well one thing is for certain, you have to be IN the Premier League to create any records, of whatever type.... so not having ANY Premier League records probably shows a lack of participation.

Golden Boot winner at the U17 World Cup....   so he clearly knows something about scoring goals.

Throw the so called "big 6" out, even though one of them is currently 7th and another 9th...   and nobody gets relegated. No more than those clubs deserve.

Wonder how much money Sean Bean has?

Or it shows that most other clubs have spent a lot more....

15 hours ago, Jim Hardie said:

Not sure how accurate these websites are.

Sheffield United - All transfers | Transfermarkt

But if he’s spent £120m in two seasons and brought next to no money in, then the owner is entitled to ask why his club is twelve points adrift.

According to that site, only Burnley and West Brom have squads valued less...   so maybe on that basis the owner can't say much...

Not if 25+ million gets him the players he actually wanted...

7 minutes ago, Brooker11 said:

I think he's lost the dressing room and the owners don't trust him with spending big, something has to be deeply wrong to have such an unprecedented bad season as this one.

Agree... I can imagine such as this...

"but we got you McBurnie and Brewster...."

"yeah, but I wanted Maupay and Watkins!"

If true... a BIG mistake.....

... new guy, squad decimated, tough year next year.... we all know how it goes, they were mad to sack Warnock last time this happened.

Surely the model is Norwich City?

Chopping and changing managers leads to at least 5 years of trouble in a lot of cases....  we can all point to them.

As the season gets towards the end point, "form" is everything, the sides to look for are those that can't get a win, even if they are currently a few places above the relegation zone. Burnley are not looking good at the moment, neither are Newcastle.

Bartlett and Hilts to sign on loan til the end of the season?

Sharp, brilliant.

Brewster, unlucky.

How was that NOT a stonewall penalty? I have given up trying to guess which way VAR will go.

Ramsdale... yes he should have stopped that, but the ball was given away multiple times in the 30s before... and.... before people start on about how much he cost, have a look at the Luton goal today vs Chelsea... how much was that fella?

Basham, consistently one of the best players.

Ampadu, great game..

4 hours ago, wearysmith said:

Never understood the logic of parachute payments. It's like rewarding failure. Should be scrapped.

That's an easy one... it's the (almost) closed shop trying to ensure it stays that way... however... history shows that many clubs go on to fail, even with these payments... many end up in L1 before turning stuff around.

Klopp should deal with it, not like he doesn't have plenty of resources at his disposal. As if the "big" clubs don't have enough things stacked in their favour, the whole "mini league" Champions League format was brought in to give those clubs the max chance of progressing without suffering a one off defeat to some "small" club and getting dumped out if it was a simple knockout.... 

I'd like to see these so called elite managers take over at somebody like Mansfield or Halifax with little cash available and have to actually build a team from scratch rather than just go around spotting guys they want to buy for 10s of millions.... that's not exactly rocket science is it, we can all spot a good footballer when we see one.

2 hours ago, despritdan said:

Before the West Brom match  I felt it would be a turning point, with either United winning their first game of the season or Wilder deciding to give the team a reboot by abandoning the negative, cautious approach for something more adventurous e.g. playing 4:4:2 or 4:3:3. The first didn't happen so we'll have to wait until Sunday to see if the second does. I want him to stay but if he continues with this system which isn't working, I fear for his future.

They still created 22 attempts on goal, so hardly negative or cautious , on another day they may have won, if they keep on creating chances like they have, they should surely win some games.

This is from "Planetfootball"

9. Sheffield United

Actual league position: 9th
Equal share: £31.8m
Facility fees: £14.4m
Merit payment: £21.3m
Overseas TV income: £60.1m
Commercial revenue: £5m
Total: £132.6m

2018-19 payment: £7.1m
Difference: +£125.5m

Doubt that there is any "massive debt".