Championship - 2022/23

Forest have bid 44.5 million for wolves Morgan gibbs white and obviously been accepted wow just wow ,our price for sarr and pedro must go up now surely

 

On the flip side, Wolves did have the benefit of somebody actually wanting to buy Gibbs-White

 

And also after Maupay at £20m. Money no object.

 

Anyone have any idea how this works with FFP? Bonkers spending….hope they go down

 

I’m not sure on the exact details, but essentially they have three years until it catches up with them. If they splurge big now, survive, then just add the odd player next season and the season after then they’ll probably be fine. If they do this every season (Everton) it will catch up with them in three years time. The reality is if you’re going to go for it, the first year is the one to do it, then you should only need to complement what you have in years 2 and 3.

 

It's a huge gamble though and if they go down that financial bump is going to hurt big time. I wonder how many of these were targets for other clubs and Forest just simply overpaid to get them? It's a crazy strategy straight out of FM.

 

If it’s all owner funded, and owner stays interested then less risk though, (aside from any rules they may be in danger of breaching).

 

Also wonder how many of these players have relegation clauses in their contracts. I think that's the key.

 

Aside from wages, the biggest risk for Forest if they go down is they've signed a lot of players of a calibre that simply won't agree to play Championship football. There won't be 2 or 3 sold to balance, it'll be a mass exodus at reduced prices and probably a fair few out on loan.

 

If the gamble pays off that’s likely another seat at the PL table sewn up for good.

 

If you're worried about our owner than just be happy that we don't have Forests owner.
And that say crime doesn't pay

 

That’s the difference between playing for a small club and a mahusive one.

 

How long will the gamble last? If they just about stay up this season, surely they can't spend big again next season?

 

Greaves has signed a new four year deal at 'ull.

 

I guess if you get yourself up to survival standard then in theory it’s just maintenance of the squad after that. The biggest expense will surly be bridging the gap between Championship and PL, but if they manage that then surely they won’t need to keep spending as much as they have.

 

They won't even notice the financial bump.

 

Our scouts might just about get around to noticing him before that contract ends...

 

Liability Collins at fault for Wolves for Kane's winner. Such an odd signing.

 

Soooo, we're currently joined in the top 6 by a Sheffield United team who could barely lay a glove on us on the opening day but who have done well on and off the pitch since, relegation favourites Reading, Blackburn who are already coming back down to earth with a bump, promoted Sunderland and Hull (see Blackburn), meanwhile Norwich look to be getting into their stride after a sticky start, Burnley still don't look overly convincing and Boro are down near the bottom...it's shaping up to be an unpredictable league

 

Should be said for balance that probably half the reason why they couldn't lay a glove on us was because we had a genuinely frightening front 3 which was never going to last the season, in addition to them lacking Ahmedhodzic! They had a good second half to last season, they'll be up there for sure, but if we stick our finger out and get some good players in, we don't have anything to be scared about

 

So many people reckon Sheffield United will win the League, I genuinely don't see why.

 

Burnley bottle a 2 goal lead against Blackpool and their stand out player Maatsen is banned for 3 games. Good stuff

 

A bit of a shame one of them is the tinpot League Cup R2 match.

 

Ah is that the rule? That's annoying

 

Definitely - GT said don't even look at the table until 10 matches have been played.......

 

At the moment we are on track for auto promotion with 92 points, and goals totals of: For = 36 Against = 18.

 

That would be impressive.

 

Fake news. 9/5 x 46 = 82.8.

Would only have got us third last season.

 

I was using a different method.

Win all our home games = 69 points, draw all our away games = 23 points. 69 + 23 = 92 points. This would have made us champions last season.

 

There is no way in hell we’ll win all of our home games and draw all our away games though.