A simple fact that no one wants to recognise.
Our formula brings in regular money by selling our best.
One season in the PL will bring at least £200 million extra to the club, over 3 years, even if you are relegated after one season.
Selling our best players each year has not taken us to the promised land.
Watkins now looks undervalued after his hat-trick v Liverpool. So we got £30 million or so.
Benrahma "may" go for £20+million.
So that’s £50 million. But it’s nowhere near what the PL promotion would give us, if we retained a winning team.
So after today, we once again set ourselves a catch-up task. We were today the Liverpool or Man. Utd. equivalent in the Championship.
Bad sub and timing decisions, and what is Forss doing sitting on his backside, and not being brought on.
We can’t go on selling our best players, and saying ‘next season, next season.’
Every year now, we spend the first 10 games or so integrating new players, and those early dumped points cost us so dear at the end.
Team bollicking all round for throwing away 2-0 lead.
Seems to me that currently the Carabao Cup team is the more impressive, and certainly the more hungry to prove a point, with the exception of Toney and Norgaard, who are critical in any game.
All goes to show how much "invisible" work is done by Norgaard, and how valuable he is, because as soon as he was off the pitch today, we fell apart.
Jenson came nowhere near with sloppy passing and no tackling.
Please don’t blame Daniels. If your defence opens up like Tower Bridge, it’s no wonder the Preston attack sailed through.
Time to drop a few regulars, and put in the ‘hungry’ players.
So glad I didn’t have to sit the cold and rain and watch that live.
Only consolation is that both Man. Utd and Liverpool suffered, and that it’s Watkins who will be top of tomorrow’s sport headlines!!!