duke63

So many people use the word 'investment' but its not investment, its just someone with more money than sense chucking cash ( in some cases that they don't actually have) at a football club hoping to buy some success. The problem is that 'investing' £50 million in the team becomes a constant just to stand still, it does not guarantee success on any level. Its why many owners suddenly stop putting money in because they realise that they have to do it every season, its not a one off. ( See Wolves) Norwich will never be a top six club with football as it is now because the club does not have the fanbase nor the media love-in that is needed to elevate a club onto the world TV stage and thus bring in a wealthy benefactor and with the imminent restrictions on wages to turnover and the independent Government appointed body to oversee English football, things are likely to change in a big way in the coming years.

And failed miserably.

There are 14 teams in the EPL who are one bad season from the Championship. Villa have spent a fortune this season but won nothing and are still lower half of the League standard. Burnley have new owners who not onlybare not as wealthy as were first thought, but have actually borrowed the money the Club had accumulated for themselves and put the club in a very difficult financial position were they to be relegated.

Definitely looks like it might be the same place in this video.

Its astonishing that some on here are actively supporting thug behaviour.

I think it was an FA Cup game and Cyrille Regis scored an abolsute screamer to win the game. It may well have ended up as goal of the season as its often replayed.

I was at that game and remember exactly the same thing. He was head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch that day.

Danny Mills in a 5-1 hiding at Wolves. Mike Walker sent the players back out after just 5 minutes of half time IIRC.

Not only that but its the Torygraph too who only use money to spread their kind of poison.

Will MOTD being having a pop at ManUre tonight because they had one of the strongest identities of all at one time and that is now all gone. They really are utter garbage.

Pep blew that one. Took off too many big players thinking the game was won.

Until the club gets relegated!

Fixed that for you

The EPL is just a rich man’s ego trip these days. Might be time to dump Sky Sports.

I can't see Webber leaving making one iota of difference to our position as a yo yo team, if anything it might mean the yo yo stopping at the bottom of its circuit. I don't know what the answer is but be very careful what you wish for. If the only way that any club can compete in the EPL is by having a wealthy foreign owner then maybe its time for me to go and follow one of my other sports more closely

Imagine having loads of cash but not being considered big enough in football terms for the forthcoming super league.

Stature in terms of physicality does not have to mean tall, look at Kante, Thiago and even Skipp, but it does mean strength and aggression. The only player in the whole squad who really has that is Hanley.

The not signing at least one and probaly two proper DCMs was where it all went wrong. We lose 0-3 at home and not a singal player has been booked. Says a lot really.

Luka Milivojevic from Palace. Exactly the type of player we have missed in our 2 EPL seasons.

So 1p5wich are not even the third biggest club in League one now. 😂

English football is getting to be like the Scottish PL, dominated by three clubs in our case. Everyone else is there to make up the numbers and keep the big money and egos turning.

Rangnick next.

The NCFC demons carry on.

The problem is the EPL is set up to the advantage of the big clubs and thus to the disadvantage of those who try to do things without amassing huge debts. let's not forget that without the wealthy owners that Citeh, Chelski, ManuRe, Liverpool have, they might be yo-yoing between the EPL and the Championship and in many of those cases, they actually were until their sugar daddies came along.

No idea why anyone feels its OK to slag off one player when we have won a game.