Andreas Jacobsson??

[The Doc 0]

Seeing as things are a bit quiet on the transfer front what do you folks think of Andreas Jacobsson as a potential signing? Swedish international, 30 odd caps, 31 years old, could be quality. Forest were interested but Brondby wanted £1m, I''m sure we could afford that or even barter them down to £750k.

[Steve White 24]

Good call Holloway - he is a good player who can also play as a defensive midfielder - has a good shot too.

[AJ 1,359]

yet again, with the money we have we are still spending little.......

[USA Canary 7]

What''s his normal position?

[The Doc 0]

Central defense, just what we need!

[Arganth 0]

What money?

£14m received.

£2.5m on wage increases, promotion bonuses etc.
£750,000 on new pitch
£6m on new stand
£3m (say) on the debt
An amount (don''t know amount) to cover the bonus payout on the share issue promised on promotion.

Plus we''ve signed five new players already, complete with the signing on fees they will have commanded...

We''re not West Brom, who cleared their debts last time they went up and so can afford to spend this time, or Palace with their chairman who is bankrolling them.

[Steeno Martins 0]

Starter for Sweden in Euro 2004. I''m sure if Worthy wanted him we could find £1M from somewhere to bring him to Norwich.

[bananaman 0]

No point in writing all that intelligent, well worded and true stuff about finances Scott.

No one ever listens.

[westoncanary. 0]

I did, am now depressed. Thanks.

[kdncfc 0]

The club have already said they were not going to use any of the money towards the debt and the 6 million for the stand has come from the land deal. We also have almost 2 million to come from our tv appearances in the first half of the season. Add to that 15 million parachute payments if we go down or another 14 million tv money plus more money each time we''re on live if we stay up for another season and I don''t believe we''re still poor for one minute, just being ultra cautious. And all that is not including 550k for each place we finish up the league and the increased sponsorhip and merchandise sales that come with being a prem club.

[Temp the Revelator 0]

Oh God, let''s not go through all this again - it is all pure speculation anyway, it is only the club who know how much we''ve got, how much we''ve lost, are going to lose this year, what the debt is, what outstanding expenses there are, what the wage bill is etc etc.

The important thing is we are in the Premiership, and being there will secure the future status of the football club. Thank you, and goodnight!

[who ?2 0]

Sorry Scott, your post was very good, but when we went up, we had no debts whatsoever! In fact West Brom were the only club to make a profit that season, because of the collapse of ITV digital. When we got into the Premiership, there were around 35 clubs in the country with higher wage bills then ours (£5m, if you''re interested) we spent £8m on players;

£2.5m Koumas
£2.5m Hughes
£1.5m Gregan
£750k Marshall
£750k Murphy
Free Wallwork

There were other expenses (board room payouts, promotion bonuses etc. which totalled about £2m)

Which left us with about £5m of the original money left, then we received our parachute payment of £5-6m last season, but our wage bill went back down to £3m, plus we only spent £2.5m on transfers so we still had all of the original Premiership money, plus whatever revenue we created during the season.

If you look at how much we''ve spent this season;

£2.75m Albrectsen
£1.5m Gera
£1.25m Greening
£750k Purse
£150k Scimeca
Free Kanu (I''d expect a signing on fee of around £250k)
Free Kuszczac (fee to be decided at a tribunal)

It''s currently less than what we spent in our first Prem season, however, we also plan to buy 3-4 more players with Anderlecht''s Dindane (First ever African to win Belgian Player of the year, and who scored 21 goals last season) for £4-5m and other targets like Konchesky on loan and Inamoto for a nominal fee. We''ll probably top the £10m mark on fees, but to be honest we need to. At the moment our squad looks in good shape, our defence is quality, as is our goalkeeper, with a holding midfielder our midfield will be sorted and if we sign Dindane our strikeforce will be fit enough to grace the Premiership.