Benjamin Bloom - Promotion or Bust!!!

[Withington Blade]

A video from Ben Bloom, if anyone is interested. Nothing particularly groundbreaking but I like him and I think he’s pretty much on the money in terms of his assessment.

 

[Houston_Blade]

A video from Ben Bloom, if anyone is interested. Nothing particularly groundbreaking but I like him and I think he’s pretty much on the money in terms of his assessment.

He’s absolutely spot on, next season poses big questions whichever division we are in, big rebuild needed either way.

 

[Westran]

If we go up the opportunity to rebuild gives us a good platform to add to what we already have, going back up with players like Egan, Ndiaye, Berge, Bogle, Lowe, Anel, Norrington Davies and Mcburnie, with some promising youth players to keep things fresh would be an excellent starting point.

I'd add a striker, defensive midfielder, creative midfielder and a left center back, possibly a keeper. 5 players with a £60m budget and then some investment in the stadium would make for a cracking summer.

 

[Charlieblade]

^ You are not asking much are you? lol. In principle I agree with most of what you have said. It all depends on getting promoted this season, keeping top players and the Prince being onside?

If all this happens, I still think we will need a few loans to keep the team in the PL. Infrastructure investment is anyones guess. The other consideration is for the Prince to keep other parties interested, which means being able to sell the club with a positive balance sheet?

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Spot on. It’s always more astute and much cheaper to build for the Premier league as opposed to building whilst in it. I always remember Wolves putting together a reasonable low grade Prem team while they were in the Championship, they added to it when they got promoted and have been in the top flight ever since. Can’t really imagine Egan, George, Flecky and dare I say it Norwood having another crack at the Prem again.
We need to find more players like Anel…and fast.

 

[BushBlade]

Spot on. It’s always more astute and much cheaper to build for the Premier league as opposed to building whilst in it. I always remember Wolves putting together a reasonable low grade Prem team while they were in the Championship, they added to it when they got promoted and have been in the top flight ever since. Can’t really imagine Egan, George, Flecky and dare I say it Norwood having another crack at the Prem again.
We need to find more players like Anel…and fast.

It is if you’ve got the money to do so. Wolves owners bought Wolves because they had no losses for FFP purposes, so they could invest the maximum amount allowable under FFP over the following three years. They used Mendes, the agent, to bring in a number of good Portuguese prospects on loan deals that would become permanent (for an additional fee) should they go up. It’s worked very well for them but I’ve noticed they haven’t spent as much, relatively, since they got promoted. They’re business people and their aim was to recover their initial investment and then make a profit, which they may have done (no one planned for Covid).

I don’t think we’re in a position to do that right now. I don’t think PA has the cash to make that kind of investment. And because Wolves did it, it doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for another club. There are plenty of owners who’ve invested huge amounts and seen nothing in return, we don’t have to look far to see one.

Ideally, we go up, and if it means we have to pay PL prices for our players, so be it. It’s always going to be difficult to progress long term without an benefactor type owner but it’s not impossible. It’s a slow process. It took Burnley two relegations before they managed to stay in the PL for a sustained period of time. Norwich haven’t managed it. If we don’t go up this season, next season will still require a massive rebuild but with the fees we’ll receive for the players we sell, we might just be able to do it, particularly if we can bring in a couple of the youth players who are out on loan learning their trade, like Boyes and Osula.

 

[PaulHalfway]

Nailed on comments. If we don’t go up this year, massive drop in income next year would have to be radical changes to players wages budget and player sales to balance the reduction in income