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They're both disappearing over the horizon and good luck to the both of them and their cash, It'll be a decent thing for Sheff Utd to pay their outstanding transfer debts going back to last season. Tossers. Whatever.............................
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 22:55 - Jan 20 with 2820 views
Burnley is by far the best footballing side in the championship.I didn't think much of Sheffield united, But it is nice to watch Norwich,Watford and West brom now scramberling around. Though next season will be even tougher considrisng we could possibly have the likes of Everton,Southampton and even West ham joining us in the championship.
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 08:25 - Jan 21 with 2529 views
burnley and sheff utd both win on 04:36 - Jan 21 by LowerloftLad
Burnley is by far the best footballing side in the championship.I didn't think much of Sheffield united, But it is nice to watch Norwich,Watford and West brom now scramberling around. Though next season will be even tougher considrisng we could possibly have the likes of Everton,Southampton and even West ham joining us in the championship.
To be fair, every season's tough when you are us.
'It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it'
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 08:31 - Jan 21 with 2519 views
burnley and sheff utd both win on 08:31 - Jan 21 by DavieQPR
It ain't what you do it's how much money you got to do it.
When you look at that table of players wages that someone posted yesterday and see Burnley halve ten in the top fifty highest paid and the only one of ours in the top hundred is Tyler Roberts ( a fair bit of which is presumably being met by Leeds), the composition of the present League table and the scale of the task we are now facing as a club becomes starkly apparent.
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 09:02 - Jan 21 with 2445 views
burnley and sheff utd both win on 08:49 - Jan 21 by johnhoop
When you look at that table of players wages that someone posted yesterday and see Burnley halve ten in the top fifty highest paid and the only one of ours in the top hundred is Tyler Roberts ( a fair bit of which is presumably being met by Leeds), the composition of the present League table and the scale of the task we are now facing as a club becomes starkly apparent.
When you look at that list, it's full of players from the teams with parachute payments who you'd expect to be the top 6 - Burnley, Sheff Utd, Norwich, Watford, and West Brom. At least two of them aren't going to get value for money this season. Someone needs to look up 'leveling up' football, but of course, like in society, that would be the reverse of what those in power actually want. So while they may talk it, they'll never walk it.
burnley and sheff utd both win on 08:31 - Jan 21 by DavieQPR
It ain't what you do it's how much money you got to do it.
Not in every case Brentford’s team that beat Liverpool 3 1 a few weeks back started with 8 players from their last season in the championship.You have to have clever recruitment and top coaches to improve players.
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 10:39 - Jan 21 with 2298 views
I'd say that in our team Dieng, Laird, Paal, Field, Chair, Willock are all capable of being part of a well functioning Premier League side. You could argue Tim and JCS as well.
We have to keep going, keep trading and keep building. Selling Eze alone has changed the side from one that was consistently 16th to one that had a flirt with the Play Offs.
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 17:30 - Jan 21 with 2173 views
burnley and sheff utd both win on 04:36 - Jan 21 by LowerloftLad
Burnley is by far the best footballing side in the championship.I didn't think much of Sheffield united, But it is nice to watch Norwich,Watford and West brom now scramberling around. Though next season will be even tougher considrisng we could possibly have the likes of Everton,Southampton and even West ham joining us in the championship.
It's going to be tough for us whoever is in the Championship... unless we can add some quality and steel to the team. We'll be looking down, not up for the foreseeable future.
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 17:38 - Jan 21 with 2160 views
I hope they romp the whole league. It will hopefully lead to a debate on finances. You simply cant have clubs like us not able to invest a penny and then have another team with an extra 120 million and still have a competitive league.
Right now I can't see anything changing. The teams in the Premier League that usually finish in the top 4 keep getting Champions league money albeit this season is a bit different to the usual fayre.
The teams with the parachute money top the Championship so unless their payments are significantly cut in the future nothing will change. Nobody seems put out about the impact on competitiveness where it matters other than us fans.
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 02:24 - Jan 22 with 2033 views
burnley and sheff utd both win on 09:02 - Jan 21 by distortR
When you look at that list, it's full of players from the teams with parachute payments who you'd expect to be the top 6 - Burnley, Sheff Utd, Norwich, Watford, and West Brom. At least two of them aren't going to get value for money this season. Someone needs to look up 'leveling up' football, but of course, like in society, that would be the reverse of what those in power actually want. So while they may talk it, they'll never walk it.
To be fair, 3 of those 10 aren't at the club any more so their wages are nearer to £nil.
The funds for this season's push are from selling virtually every saleable asset last summer. The surviving high wages are the ones we couldn't sell (Brownhill excepted). The new owners have taken £140m out of the club to pay their debts to the old owners, so we aren't awash with cash.
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 04:52 - Jan 22 with 1985 views
burnley and sheff utd both win on 02:24 - Jan 22 by dsr_burnley
To be fair, 3 of those 10 aren't at the club any more so their wages are nearer to £nil.
The funds for this season's push are from selling virtually every saleable asset last summer. The surviving high wages are the ones we couldn't sell (Brownhill excepted). The new owners have taken £140m out of the club to pay their debts to the old owners, so we aren't awash with cash.
That still means seven are still on that list. That's the whole spine of a team. They also spent £26 million on players this season alone which is laughable for most Championship club to do, as it's double any FFP headroom for a whole year (that's without paying a penny on wages - and we've already established you're probably paying the highest wages by far in the Championship). To find one Premiership level player every five or so years is doing really well, you can only dream of doing so on the scale of Burnley this season of selling £73 million worth of players to fund this kind of expenditure.
This isn't a pop at Burnley btw, just at the system and how ridiculous a task it is to get out of the Championship if you aren't a) receiving parachute payments e.g. Bournemouth or Fulham or b) completely breaking FFP (which we did and got caught for it but Forest look like getting away with it through staying in Prem), e.g. Nottingham Forest.
There are a few clubs that do it by painstakingly building assets over a long period of time, like Brentford and Fulham have. But it's becoming incredibly difficult to do so because the bigger clubs are collecting good young players on an industrial scale and can nab the best ones from any Championship Academy for almost nothing.
This season it looks like promoted sides will be Burnley and Sheffield Utd (both receiving parachute payments plus one of WBA, Norwich, Middlesbrough and Watford). Blackburn are falling away like last season, and although Luton and Milwall are making a strong push for it, they only need a few injuries and the lack of strength in depth counts against them as happened to us with key injuries last season. The only one of those ones I cited not receiving parachute payments is Middlesbrough and they managed to have two Prem level players sold this season for a combination of more than £20 million. It can happen but it's like hens' teeth. Even harder for us in London as we're competing against Chelsea, Fulham, Palace, Brentford, Spurs, Southampton and Arsenal for those best young players with future sell on potential.
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 08:06 - Jan 22 with 1912 views
burnley and sheff utd both win on 08:49 - Jan 21 by johnhoop
When you look at that table of players wages that someone posted yesterday and see Burnley halve ten in the top fifty highest paid and the only one of ours in the top hundred is Tyler Roberts ( a fair bit of which is presumably being met by Leeds), the composition of the present League table and the scale of the task we are now facing as a club becomes starkly apparent.
This is all very true, a danger of there becoming a mini Premier league of teams with the parachute payment budget, very difficult for QPR to compete although much of our fanbase seem to struggle to grasp this.
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burnley and sheff utd both win on 11:58 - Jan 22 with 1873 views
burnley and sheff utd both win on 08:06 - Jan 22 by WestonsuperR
This is all very true, a danger of there becoming a mini Premier league of teams with the parachute payment budget, very difficult for QPR to compete although much of our fanbase seem to struggle to grasp this.
Agree. Better get used to mid table mediocrity at best...for the foreseeable future.
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