king_dezeeuw06
Vital Champions League
100% Promotion, not even a second thought.
But to be fair i would've taken survival over the FA cup when we won it. I know not many would agree but i took that stance from a purely pragmatic view of the huge financial implications of relegation and the damage it would do to the clubs ability to be self sustaining and continue to grow.
I get that the glory and the history of the cup lasts forever and not many clubs can say they have that - i understand why many people would take that and say 'we may never win the cup again but we can get promoted again' But for me the thought were 'if we go down we may never come back up again' - with the gap between the wealth in the Prem and the Chamopinship continuing to grow and the cost of wages and transfer fees for good players always rising - the cost of making a club competative is increasing. Without the Prem money you are most likely going to make annual loses and stacking up debt. A club like Millwall hardly spend anything on transfers and have no big name players you can imagine are on top money but apparently lose 100k a week. If Millwalls modest squad is losing the club 5m a year you can see how difficult it is financially in the long term.
It's obviously great we won the FA Cup but if it was a choice between survival and cup, i just think the clubs financial health relies on Prem money as our small crowds who only pay rock bottom prices will never be able to sustain us at a decent level. If we had to start living soley off gate reciepts we'd have to cut investment drastically in the squad and results would probably suffer and as your results suffer the crowd shrinks and you can easily find yourself in a downward spiral. Thankfully we've had the parachute payments, the Yanic sale to soften the blow so the harsh financial realities of relegation haven't been felt to their full extent yet. Hopefully the new owners will keep us ticking over but in modern football the money is so big at the top and is the best way to safeguard the clubs future.
If you said relegation battle getting beat most weeks in the Prem vs the FA Cup glory, you'd obviously pick the glory if that was all the was to it. But the reality of the finances of survival vs relegation is something that i found really scary and couldn't look past. I imagine that is quite an unpopular view but that's me.
But to be fair i would've taken survival over the FA cup when we won it. I know not many would agree but i took that stance from a purely pragmatic view of the huge financial implications of relegation and the damage it would do to the clubs ability to be self sustaining and continue to grow.
I get that the glory and the history of the cup lasts forever and not many clubs can say they have that - i understand why many people would take that and say 'we may never win the cup again but we can get promoted again' But for me the thought were 'if we go down we may never come back up again' - with the gap between the wealth in the Prem and the Chamopinship continuing to grow and the cost of wages and transfer fees for good players always rising - the cost of making a club competative is increasing. Without the Prem money you are most likely going to make annual loses and stacking up debt. A club like Millwall hardly spend anything on transfers and have no big name players you can imagine are on top money but apparently lose 100k a week. If Millwalls modest squad is losing the club 5m a year you can see how difficult it is financially in the long term.
It's obviously great we won the FA Cup but if it was a choice between survival and cup, i just think the clubs financial health relies on Prem money as our small crowds who only pay rock bottom prices will never be able to sustain us at a decent level. If we had to start living soley off gate reciepts we'd have to cut investment drastically in the squad and results would probably suffer and as your results suffer the crowd shrinks and you can easily find yourself in a downward spiral. Thankfully we've had the parachute payments, the Yanic sale to soften the blow so the harsh financial realities of relegation haven't been felt to their full extent yet. Hopefully the new owners will keep us ticking over but in modern football the money is so big at the top and is the best way to safeguard the clubs future.
If you said relegation battle getting beat most weeks in the Prem vs the FA Cup glory, you'd obviously pick the glory if that was all the was to it. But the reality of the finances of survival vs relegation is something that i found really scary and couldn't look past. I imagine that is quite an unpopular view but that's me.