Poll: Who is going down?
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Blackpool mateThere'll probably be about 9k go down just for the weekend out.
we'll see
I'm going to be rooting for Villa this weekend.
I would like to see Hull survive, but much more than that I want to see Newcastle relegated. I think a trip to the championship would do them a world of good and might start breeding some *realistic* expectations from the fans for a change. Alan Fuhrer hasn't struck me as a particularly good manager either.
I would like to see Hull survive, but much more than that I want to see Newcastle relegated. I think a trip to the championship would do them a world of good and might start breeding some *realistic* expectations from the fans for a change. Alan Fuhrer hasn't struck me as a particularly good manager either.
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I think it'll be Newcastle and Middlesbrough along with West Brom and of those teams I'd expect Newcastle to struggle the most in the Championship.
I can't think of many Premiership quality players that WB have so they might be able to hold on to most of their squad. Middlesbrough have got a lot of youth players so they should be all right but I can see Newcastle getting hit hard and a lot of their players leaving or getting snapped up. They could be the next Man City or Leeds imo.
I can't think of many Premiership quality players that WB have so they might be able to hold on to most of their squad. Middlesbrough have got a lot of youth players so they should be all right but I can see Newcastle getting hit hard and a lot of their players leaving or getting snapped up. They could be the next Man City or Leeds imo.
Please explain to me how us going down is going to do us any good?
Losing out on the £30m we'd get from staying in the EPL can't possibly be a good thing.
The clearing out of our chaff players might well happen if we go down but it will also mean losing some of our decent players. We've got such a small squad at the minute that we would have to do some serious buying in the summer to even have a team next season!
While we've needed a clear out for a long time, being relegated and losing a huge percentage of our squad is not the way to do it. We need stability for a few seasons with a manager who won't take lazy, expensive, wastes of space and can pick out talented young players.
Panzer
Losing out on the £30m we'd get from staying in the EPL can't possibly be a good thing.
The clearing out of our chaff players might well happen if we go down but it will also mean losing some of our decent players. We've got such a small squad at the minute that we would have to do some serious buying in the summer to even have a team next season!
While we've needed a clear out for a long time, being relegated and losing a huge percentage of our squad is not the way to do it. We need stability for a few seasons with a manager who won't take lazy, expensive, wastes of space and can pick out talented young players.
Panzer
This is going to be a very long week :/ I did believe we could get a point against villa but now what with bassong out and rumblings of beye injured I am feeling less confident by the minute. I am dumbstruck we are in this mess. Ashley should write a book how NOT to run a football club. The Damned Utd Pt2.
Should be just like going back to the glory days of Keegan
Exactly like that, except we've currently got no width, no strike force and no midfield.
Panzer
I was of course exagerating hance the smiley
Having said that around 15k went to Milan.
I forget how many Sunderland fans went last time they played in Milan...
Newcastle going down is the best thing that can happen to them, without it they will not progress.
Going down will force them to offload the stupid money players, look to the academy and players that actually want to play for the club and they will come back stronger than they will ever be just hanging around the lower end of the prem whizzing money up the wall.
It may well be the best thing for them but im not convinced it'll happen. I can see Ashley spending his way out of the Championship. The amount of money it will cost him to hold onto certain players and bring new players in will be nothing compared to the drop in value of Newcastle while they are in the Championship.
How does Ashley think just throwing money at a club will make it successful? We've made a profit in the last few transfer windows. We've spent next to nothing since he came in.
Going down is bad whichever way you look at it. We can get rid of dead wood in the PL why wait till we get relegated and then receive even smaller fees for players? Owen, Cacapa, Viduka and a couple of others contracts run out this summer so that's them gone, I don't see how we can't get rid of more whilst in the PL?
He's invested £258 million since he took over.
And having a read around it seems he has also invested in the academy, mabye I've got him wrong and he can see that going down is a good thing for the club.
Ok, so you offload a load more players in the prem.
You then have to spend Premiership money on players (which you then have to pay ashley back) to play in the prem, pay premiership wages etc etc.
And that still doesn't guarantee you stay in the prem next season, so you have a load of players you still havent paid for you have to offload in in a firesale that nobody wants and you go down owing Ashley more money than you do now.
The playing staff needs rebuilding almost entirely, and trying to do that while staying in the PL is not going to be easy, I would say if you are all dead set on Shearer staying on, I would say impossible.
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He's invested more money in the off field stuff rather than the first team, clearing debts etc. So he hasn't just been 'throwing money' at the club a la Ambramovich.