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Author Topic: Teams we'll finish above next season  (Read 43726 times)

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #390 on: May 27, 2023, 08:24:26 PM »
I've always wondered if it ever crossed the mind of a small team coming up to just think 'fuck it', take the cash, accept relegatation but secure the clubs future for a long time.

Norwich have been doing that for at least a decade.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #391 on: May 27, 2023, 08:25:12 PM »
I've always wondered if it ever crossed the mind of a small team coming up to just think 'fuck it', take the cash, accept relegatation but secure the clubs future for a long time.

That was Albion's strategy in 2002 - come up, don't spend much, go down, get the parachute payments, come up again.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #392 on: May 27, 2023, 08:26:54 PM »
I've always wondered if it ever crossed the mind of a small team coming up to just think 'fuck it', take the cash, accept relegatation but secure the clubs future for a long time.
Norwich. More than once.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #393 on: May 27, 2023, 08:56:18 PM »
Norwich always gave it a semi decent go though, didn't they?  They were just shit. I've got got a shocking memory so maybe not.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #394 on: May 27, 2023, 09:05:44 PM »
I've always wondered if it ever crossed the mind of a small team coming up to just think 'fuck it', take the cash, accept relegatation but secure the clubs future for a long time.
Yeah, but we saw with the Grealish money things don't always go to plan.

I'd be all for the us/Fulham/Forest approach. Life's too short, may as well go for it. Won't always work out, but there's a far higher success rate than what, say, Norwich end up with.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #395 on: May 27, 2023, 09:11:07 PM »
Norwich always gave it a semi decent go though, didn't they?  They were just shit. I've got got a shocking memory so maybe not.

Nah. They banked (I'm guessing) 70% of the cash and then gave the manager a few quid thinking that anything he achieves with it would be a bonus.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #396 on: May 27, 2023, 09:12:30 PM »
I've always wondered if it ever crossed the mind of a small team coming up to just think 'fuck it', take the cash, accept relegatation but secure the clubs future for a long time.

Norwich with the added bonus of selling their best players.

 


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