13. May 2014 - Owners to spend 180 m.....

[TheStig]

......and all and sundry laughed at us. 2 years later big time nemesis  https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/27387616

Edited 13 May 2018 by TheStig

[Swarles Barkley]

To be fair, I laughed at us

[davieG]

We're in danger of becoming the new notts forest if we don't win something else very soon.

[urban.spaceman]

8 minutes ago, davieG said:

We're in danger of becoming the new notts forest if we don't win something else very soon.

Well that 40 years went quick. 

[Alf Bentley]

Ironically, we won the title despite spending nothing like £180m.

We spent less than £30m in transfer fees on the whole title-winning squad, didn't we, and wages well below the top level?

 

If anybody wants to laugh at us, they should be laughing at some of the money we've wasted since then....  

[MC Prussian]

Given where we were at the time, and looking back at our (immediate) troubled past and financial problems/mismanagement, it felt such a ludicrous and slightly megalomaniac statement to make.

 

[Guest MattP]

Still baffles me that we won the league and then decided to completely change our approach to how we operated in the transfer market.

[davieG]

17 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Well that 40 years went quick. 

Well time flies by quickly in the world of football and it doesn't take long to become the forgotten men.

[whoareyaaa]

24 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

Ironically, we won the title despite spending nothing like £180m.

We spent less than £30m in transfer fees on the whole title-winning squad, didn't we, and wages well below the top level?

 

If anybody wants to laugh at us, they should be laughing at some of the money we've wasted since then....  

Good point, I wonder who masterminded  that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Foxy-Lady]

12 minutes ago, MattP said:

Still baffles me that we won the league and then decided to completely change our approach to how we operated in the transfer market.

Fair point. 

 

Most probably because we suddenly found ourselves in a position where we were financially able to operate in a different way and the investment was expected of a PL tilte winning club competing in the CL...but your question of WHY change a successful formula is a valid point. 

Additionally I would ask that if we intended to radically change direction from our previous transfer strategy, wouldn't it have been a good idea to recruit people at senior level with experience of operating in the transfer market at that level as opposed to continuing to use the people who had been successful working on a shoestring budget?   Its called "Succession Planning"...!  

Edited 13 May 2018 by Foxy-Lady

[StriderHiryu]

15 minutes ago, MattP said:

Still baffles me that we won the league and then decided to completely change our approach to how we operated in the transfer market.

After winning the title I don't think we did change our approach and that's the mistake we made. The big three of Musa, Mendy and Slimani weren't household names, but more signings that had potential. Well this is probably less the case with Slimani who was in the top 10 strikers for goals scored in Europe that year, but I digress. I know that the owners didn't want to sign big ego players to disrupt the squad, which makes sense, but the signings we made were never in a million years good enough for a team that had just won the title. They were more like signings for a team that had just been promoted instead of a team in the Champions League.

Edited 13 May 2018 by StriderHiryu

[sylofox]

Slim and Musa where targets when we beat relegation to push us forward. Yes hindsight and all that. But were they ever good enough to keep us top six.

 

We ended up paying over the odds for mid table players.

[mozartfox]

39 minutes ago, MattP said:

Still baffles me that we won the league and then decided to completely change our approach to how we operated in the transfer market.

The simple answer was the Club found itself at an unexpected high level with an Off-field set up that did not have the skills and knowledge required for this step up. So transfer dealings have, in the main, been a disaster.  If this will change is doubtful, unless Puel has his own contacts that know how to scout.  

[Nalis]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

We're in danger of becoming the new notts forest if we don't win something else very soon.

 

I've mentioned in other threads that I will unashamedly bang on about our league win until the day I die regardless of what else we acheive. Therefore, I have no qualms with any Forest fan over the age of 40 doing the same. Those under 40 doing it however are morons.

[sylofox]

4 minutes ago, Nalis said:

 

I've mentioned in other threads that I will unashamedly bang on about our league win until the day I die regardless of what else we acheive. Therefore, I have no qualms with any Forest fan over the age of 40 doing the same. Those under 40 doing it however are morons.

They are all morons just the over 40's have the Tshirt so to speak.