What if.....?

[PT]

We can only muster 19 points from our remaining games and the trap door opens?

What are the implications?

For a start, the waiting list for a season ticket can go on waiting. The stadium plans will remain just plans for the duration of our exile.

Overpaid and under-achieving players will depart at great cost to the fiscal state of our club - transfer fees will deflate.

The Club will most likely finally go private and be taken off the public listings mandatarily at the call of an EGM called by ENIC.

Our status will diminish as will our appeal in the transfer market - take Manchester City and Leeds Utd as classic examples.

However.

Do we need this shake up to rediscover our identity? The last time we went down from the old Division One we scraped ourselves off the floor, rebuilt by holding on to a solid core of players that took us down and got back up in third place by drawing away to Southampton on the final day of the season.

We then went on to play our best football for a decade in the early eighties.

Does it need this shock for our club to lose the lethargy within?

:shrug:

 

[riversmonkey]

Jesus. We can worry about this in May, by then the recession will have rendered Football obsolete.

 

[Marty]

If we bounced back straight away it wouldn't harm the club in the long run and it's quite possible that it might strengthen us.

However, there's no guarantee we would go straight back up, and if we didn't we'd probably end up like Southampton, Coventry, Leeds and Leicester.

 

[VegasII]

I don't think clubs bounce straight back these days.

 

[IamCelestial]

i honestly think that football has changed too much since then and that a relegation would be a catastrophe, which would put us 10 years behind the "golden mid" teams like pompey, neverton etc.

 

[Defsta]

Well, maybe that would teach something for those ****s who just can't get it right on the pitch :think:

But one thing is sure and something have to happen or we will go down... that's a fact.

 

[ckafetz]

we're dooooooooooooooooomed. doomed i say.

 

[PT]

We can't be deluded about this though.

Fail to prepare - prepare to fail.

This season is a write off - we have to buy what it takes to make sure we end up fourth from bottom or higher.

 

[Goldman]

We will be in a fairer position to judge after the jan window, once we know are final squad. I think we will be fine, but it will be a poor finish, about 13th.

 

[ckafetz]

Yep i agree, buy in January to keep us in the Premier League then in the summer we need to sell Jenas, Huddlestone, Pavlyuchenko, Gilberto, Rocha, Ghaly, Taarabt, Boateng abd buy 3 top top quality midfielders and 3 top quality strikers

 

[VegasII]

I'd take 13th place right now.

 

[Wsussexspur]

My worry. Is alot of clubs who do go down don't come back up straight away! This is because the championship is so competative and if ( please god forbid) that we did to down then every team will be treating playing us like a cup final.

I just hope Daniel levy gets his cheque book out in jan and gets us the players harry wants to get us out of this mess!

 

[whiteheartdave]

what money would we lose if we did go down?????? i did ask this in another thread with no reply, i am just curious of the implications with splashing loads of money on transfers to stay up and what we would lose if we went down.

 

[ckafetz]

We'd lose over £30m per year minimum!

The Premier League distributes a small portion of its television revenue to clubs that are relegated from the league in the form of "parachute payments". Starting with the 2006–07 season, these payments are in the amount of £6.5 million over the club's first two seasons in lower leagues, although this rose to £11.2 million per year for clubs relegated in 2007–2008.[48] Designed to help teams adjust to the loss of television revenues (the average Premier League team receives £45 million while the average Football League Championship club receives £1 million),[48] critics maintain that the payments actually widen the gap between teams that have reached the Premier League and those that have not,[50] leading to the common occurrence of teams "bouncing back" soon after their relegation.

 

[VegasII]

If we went down we'd get parachute payments & whatever revenue we can get for the useless tits who failed to turn up on the pitch this season.

Maybe 2 & 1/2 pence?

 

[PT]

Our perennial problem has been that we've acted like a billy big bollox club in purchasing over hyped players for over hyped prices. The likes of our immediate peers would love to "get by" on our cash flow in the market place. We need to look at how they survive and what they survive with before getting grandiose delusional aspirations of Champions League flag waving.

 

[whiteheartdave]

So its wise to say that we should go out and spend the money we got off the Berba sale and more.

thanks for the reply guys....

 

[LadieK]

Very scary thought but it is a real thought and that makes it even more scary!!

I just can't see us holding on to many players if this happens. You can guarantee Lennon, Modric and Bale would be the first out as talent like that won't be sitting still for long! I've love to think Woody and Ledders would stay, and would influence others to do so but before any of that, I just hope we can reinforce in this window and come out fighting hard to stay up!

 

[markiespurs]

Very scary thought but it is a real thought and that makes it even more scary!!

I just can't see us holding on to many players if this happens. You can guarantee Lennon, Modric and Bale would be the first out as talent like that won't be sitting still for long! I've love to think Woody and Ledders would stay, and would influence others to do so but before any of that, I just hope we can reinforce in this window and come out fighting hard to stay up!

This Transfer window is probably one of the most important windows in the clubs recent history, if harry gets it right, then we could comfortably finish mid table or even top half of the prem, get it wrong and it could be a long and upsetting season.

 

[LadieK]

This Transfer window is probably one of the most important windows in the clubs recent history, if harry gets it right, then we could comfortably finish mid table or even top half of the prem, get it wrong and it could be a long and upsetting season.

Very true indeed. There is still so much to play for!! CC Semi, Uefa Cup, even FA Cup - and a good league position still within reach.

COYS!!