10 Mar 2024 14:21:48
Ampadu 7 million? Buy of the season, no decade.
Done a proper Dick Turpin on the Kings Road mob!
SEVEN MILLION.
Seven Mill
£7.000 000
7,000 bags of sand
No matter how you say it Chelsea got rightly done up.
10 Mar 2024 14:37:15
When compared to the 100 million plus some of there players cost
I know Tom Bradshaw who plays with our boys at wales
He said Dan James has really matured and come into himself, Rodon is quality and amps is a rolls Royce of a player!
Happy days.
10 Mar 2024 15:07:21
I’ll be the first to praise Amps and James but you have measure in that this is only the Championship, as James with his time in the Prem with three different clubs, he hasn’t really shone like he has in the Champo.
Having said that both of these players have matured and hopefully they will both not be out of place in the premiership
This also applies to Farke, an outstanding Championship coach but can he have success in the Premiership?
With all the great football we are seeing with our team right now, it shouldn’t be ignored that there is a great divide between the two Leagues.
My personal thoughts are that if the 49ers back Farke, he will keep us in the Premiership if promoted.
10 Mar 2024 16:08:41
He had millions at Norwich.
10 Mar 2024 16:33:03
Millions of what?
10 Mar 2024 16:58:35
Cork Well plagiarized from One Leeds Fan Channel! ??.
10 Mar 2024 17:16:10
I have seen Conor’s channel George but if he said same as me well he’s a smart lad.
10 Mar 2024 18:03:37
Cork Amps is my player of the season.
10 Mar 2024 18:14:54
Farke did have money at Norwich in the prem but as with bielsa nowhere near enough.
Farkes Norwich did not fair well in the Premiership as if memory serves.
If leeds do go up this year we will have a better deeper squad than last time.
10 Mar 2024 19:52:10
100% George.
10 Mar 2024 19:53:43
Whiteman, that's just not accurate at all, mate.
When they went up to the EPL for the 19/ 20 season they had barely F all. Biggest expenditure that season was Sam McCallum for £4.15m. Next biggest signing was Sam Byram at £830k. Net spend was £-6.62m.
The second time they went up under Farke, 21/ 22, they had lost their most integral player in Buendia (sold for £38.4m) and spent £63.55m, meaning net spend was £-25.15m. They would've had barely F all again had they not sold Buendia. Furthermore, that season for every £100 earned they paid out £88 in wages. Their finances were very poor.
You can't seriously think that's an adequate amount of money to A. replace your most influential player and B. build a team of EPL calibre. It's peanuts in today's game.
Farke worked on a shoestring budget. Something which he won't have to do if we get promoted.
10 Mar 2024 20:20:09
Spot on Dill. Was going to say exact same but without the actual numbers!
10 Mar 2024 20:39:01
Gotta thank transfermarkt, they did all the heavy lifting ?
Deffo underfunded in his time there.
And fwiw, they played some decent football at times, but the talent just wasn't good enough, so I have no nerves about Farke succeeding in the EPL with financial backing.
10 Mar 2024 22:54:56
Good post dill. I knew farke did not have much backing when Norwich went up but I thought it was a bit more than you that.
When A team win promotion as Ipswich did last year the need to try to continue the momentum of that season is key.
10 Mar 2024 22:55:37
Great post Dillinger
Farke had pennies… just as reference didn’t Belisa spend something like 150 million in one window?
11 Mar 2024 00:10:52
I think you are referring berm to 20-21 season. According to transfermarkt. co. uk it 127 mil for the full year and they are putting jka transfer in that as well 21 mil.
Is a good sum but considering the injuries we carried it was a drop in the ocean.
11 Mar 2024 08:22:10
Stuart Webber was a notoriously tight Sporting Director in his time at Norwich, which is why I was extremely dubious when we got linked with him to follow Farke.
I wanted Dmitri de Conde from Genk (emphasis on youth progression and possession based players) in the summer, but things seemed to have worked out better than fine with recruitment this season, Spence debacle aside.
11 Mar 2024 08:42:36
Very true mate we also spent a fair few quid getting up
People talk about bubs turning us around but he spent 20 million ( know that for fact this was the final fee) on bamford alone who was huge player for us… signings like this ate huge in championship
Bubs had his merits and his downfalls farke is just class on every level…. We are very lucky to have him.
11 Mar 2024 11:23:21
Just to add I think we all agree amps, kamara and gruev are all bargains. Plus if we add archie to that we have got a very solid midfield for less than 20 mil.
Bargain.
If only our previous owners could have done that?
12 Mar 2024 14:08:07
Bamford was £8m rising to £10m based on appearances.