Hifriedelity
Vital Squad Member
Interesting Times article today using wages and amortisation to rank expected points/position. We ranked 10th last year and finished 4 positions below but only 2 below expected points total. We had wages plus amortisation of £194m..Wolves directly above us at £200m and next above that Leicester at £260m. So we need wages + amortisation to rise by over 30% to push up our expected position in the table to 8th from 10th. In terms of Gerrard he has basically performed to expected in league position. His recruitment on the face of it has looked quite good. If we spent £150m on 4 players at £37.5m each and paid them £150k each per week we would be level with Leicester in terms of expected league position using this metric.