Ignoring that my post wasn't even about me and doesn't explain why others with no success got bigger icnreases!
All this discussion about things like this is all fine and well, however, it's missing a far bigger picture for smaller clubs.....
1. HOW the feck can clubs in lower divisions catch up if our "managers valuation" sell ons have disappeared?
Contradicting myself a little here, but I do see that in the new way players are valued that players now have relative value and they don't lose value if you have two or three in that position as you did before, which is a much needed change. However! Look at a club like Leeds (for example) where he has picked players based on their ratings (90+) and ignored their age. He will be stuffed because the sell on value of the older players will have gone, and their wages will have risen significantly to reflect their rating. With the sell on value gone, Leeds will be struggling to compete when he changes his squad. Luckily, his Nasri sell on will cover most of it, but imagine if he didn't have him?
The only way I can see smaller clubs progressing now is by buying young players that will rise quickly, but that means we are fighting with you lot of money-bags owners in the 1st division, where as before we could buy say Nani (for example) for £6 million and sell him on in a couple of months for £11 Million. That would subsiside our incomings/outgoings deficit and allow us to make a couple of mill to upgrade the player. It would take a while, and it meant changing your team constantly, but it gave smaller clubs a way of feeling like they were making a dent and progressing, albeit very slowly. Now that has gone, it is just a game of who gets the young players first, and that's all well and good, but when we can only bid £75k and West Ham (for instance) can bid £87k, then it's not really fair. Not to mention how long it would take for those players to gain decent value. It could be years!
Many teams will be faced with the problem of players who were previously valued exceedingly high by your chairman/club and now they are worth half that.
Tough shit I guess?
that would be the core squad plus reserves for cup gamesHe's insane. How has he been doing this season for you?
