Jon the Hat

Our running cost excluding player salaries are too though.

The problem is everything any one group doesn't like being subject to legal challenge against these policies - which while well-meaning are usually badly written. 100 Million pounds were spent on the HS2 bat tunnel for goodness sake. That could have been far better spent on conservation projects elsewhere, I am sure.

I can guarantee that is what the club are banking on.

No it's over 3 times the average league 1 salary for 1 year, then it is a below average salary in the middle of the championship for 2 years.

Me too!

You make a good point, there could well be a upfront payment and an earnout based on getting back to the prem within 5 years or something.

Fit and motivated he should be brilliant in League 1.

I knew it sounded familiar!!

There must be other examples of things which start off reasonably slow and safe but get progressively more and more powerful and dangerous so no one thinks "this is insane" but I can't think of any right now.

Which reinforces the fact that paying obscene wages has been our problem, firstly as it stopped us moving people on, and secondly as our losses are way way higher than 87M

It would be great if it was all the games, but it excludes any games which are shown on say BeIn Sports, (usually the good ones) and for me at least the mid-week games are on at 2/3am.

Sad for them. Actually don't care.

Rodgers is way more than a little arrogant.

Chuckie Egg Space Rogue

I've got a whole state which does almost everything in Hi Vis.

My point (not well made to be fair) is that if he is average but the outcomes of defeats, goals conceded are terrible then the stats are not telling the full story.

You are misreading the stats IMO. The outcomes are most important, and the top three in RED are those. The rest are merely indicators, which we can use to understand the outcomes a bit better.

The entitlement is mindblowing.

Yes I agree. Not his fault we paid 10 times too much for him or stuck it out years after it was clear he was not going to come good. There is a decent player in there, and I think he might get 10+ in the Bundesliga.

He is the classic confidence player, who never overcame his price tag.

Boro have a decent setup no doubt, but they have a lesser international name, less storied history and are a lot further from London.

Good to luck to him, I hope they can give him an environment in which he can thrive. We certainly didn't.

I would think we are quite an attractive proposition at that kind of money. Better than Middlesborough anyway.

They are buying the potential, not the present.

They can plan to bounce back. If they didn’t believe they could they wouldn’t be buying a football club. They will point to Sunderland, Birmingham etc.