Worse to come

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Two games against Pigs with a good chance of winning......or two games against Man City with zero chance of winning..............Mmmmmmm thinking.

I’snt the question about (not) gaining promotion ?
If we don’t go up why would we be playing pork

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

I’snt the question about (not) gaining promotion ?
If we don’t go up why would we be playing pork

Cummon they are nailed on for promotion.

 

[Lane Ender]

Looks like the Nigerian is a no goer just a pretender who to say if we go up the Prince will milk us something like Oyston did to Blackpool come back to the championship potless

 

[100% part time blade]

Bullshit
30,000 of our fans makes everything worse, considering we are the worst fans in football

We could have afforded quality players
My list when we got promoted included Conor Gallagher, Ivan Toney, Jarod Bowen, Ollie Watkins, Ryan Sessignon, all at lower league clubs than us at the time.

Most of these could have been brought in for less than Berge, Brewster, Freeman Robinson and McBurnie at the time

I think the reported fee for Sessegnon was £30 million pound after performance-related add-ons, alongside 5 years of Tottenham-level wages (rather than Sheffield United level) to factor into the budget as well.
In order to tempt him away from London (where he was already playing), and away from potentially champions league football and challenging for the title, to instead come to a club everyone had as nailed-on relegation fodder, we’d have had to offer a LOT more than that.

I’m sure we would have loved to have signed Watkins -his fee reportedly had a top-line of £33 million pounds after add-ons, and I suspect he was offered higher wages too.

I’ve no idea what wages Chelsea were paying Connor Gallagher back then, or what fee they might have asked for him, but I don’t think they had any interest in selling did they?

Jarrod Bowen went for £22 million reportedly, and wages of £3 million a year. He had a choice of 2 very well established premier league London clubs, and apparently went for the one that offered him the best personal terms. At the time, West Ham were desperate as they were on the verge of the relegation zone that January. Maybe we should have gone in for him, but I think they would have outmuscled us financially, just as they did Palace.

In 2020, Ivan Toney would have been a great buy, but at the time he was lower down the food-chain: he was the best of league one, looking for a championship move: we were looking at the best of the championship at players looking for a premier league move (e.g. Watkins whom Toney ended up replacing at Brentford).

We were also reportedly in for Eze and Maupay, but again they didn’t want to come and went elsewhere for more money.

As well as affording the transfer fee, and affording the wages, we also have to persuade players that joining Sheffield United is better than any other option for their careers. That normally means offering more money than other clubs might be offering.

I’d be surprised if we could have brought in the players you listed for ‘less’ than the players we bought, with the exception of Towney who proved to be a very good buy for Brentford in the championship, and whom none of the other premier league clubs were considering at the time.

I’d say we got good players for our outlay, who have done well in getting us to a good position this year. Any purchase is a gamble, because any player can get injured in any game and be out for months, or even years. I think Brewster was the biggest gamble, and successive injuries have made his acquisition by far the least successful. Mousset was a fairly big outlay, and we got nothing back on him, but his mid-season goals helped us get a top 10 finish, so maybe it was worth it. Ramsdale cost even more in the 2nd season, but we made quite a lot of profit on his sale.

I think the disastrous 2nd season had more to do with the defensive line-up than anything else: Ampadu, Bryan, Jagielka, and for some games Robinson, Basham - alongside Egan. I really think that’s where it all started to wrong, more than with the purchases above that we made, which actually weren’t that bad given that we were being regularly outbid by other big-spending premier league clubs around us at the time.

 

[Sraboys]

Lost 2 games everybody losing their heads if we go up.This might happen week in week out unless someone invest in club and believe in football and not in making a fashion statement

 

[BobblesBlade]

If we don’t go up we are screwed financially and our key players sold

If we go up we get lots of money and get to play class teams.
Big chance of Relegation but we’d all know that. Stay up and it would be great.

So much is on the cards

 

[Maidenhead]

It's a strangely worded OP in my opinion, I don't think I have ever worried or thought about what other people thing about The Blades. It seems to be forgotten these days but a supporter of a football team, which I class myself as, supports their team through thick & thin & doesn't cry like a baby after any poor result or performance. I want my team to be as high up the league structure as possible, people saying things like "we are not ready to go up" are not true supporters.
We have always been a unfashionable club, & I like that, I want us to fight for every victory or point we can get, & I will not chuck my dummy out if we go through a bad spell or even get relegated, disappointing as that may be. I have typed the word supporter lots in this post, but it seems to me that this forum is full of doom & gloom merchants & not true supporters of Sheffield United FC.

I remember times when we were regularly so bad that the team got huge cheers (not in an ironic way) if they won a corner or someone made a great challenge, and it felt like we were all part of the same scrap.

If only it were still like that, but unfortunately the world has moved on,

 

[FlamingLip]

I remember times when we were regularly so bad that the team got huge cheers (not in an ironic way) if they won a corner or someone made a great challenge, and it felt like we were all part of the same scrap.

If only it were still like that, but unfortunately the world has moved on,

our supporters need to get back into relishing a scrap. we were spoilt by the heroic rise under Wilder and have taken for granted much of what Hecky has done. i've whinged about our fans this year, but honestly, it was the same through a lot of the Warnock era - atmosphere was very hit and miss. I was a young lad in the Bassett days, so youth tinted glasses etc, but that's only when i can remember a solid atmosphere being a given.

i cant understand why folk are worrying about financial Armageddon if we dont go up. Fck it , Que sera etc. And having wendy biting at our ankles next season would definitely re-stoke a few fires.

 

[blade too long]

Yes, and we also battered Chelsea and Spurs without out fans too

But there has to be an excuse, there always is.

Truth is, for a relatively large club, and we are a large club with potential to be much bigger (before the know your place mob arrive) the various boardrooms we've had have not been interested a toss in moving the club forward, preferring to stand still and letting every other dog have its day instead of us.

We were already safe when we played Spurs and chelsea big difference and 30k in prem games that first season was electric

Never heard noise like when mcburnie made it 3-3 against man utd

 

[JJBlade]

We were already safe when we playedspurs and chelsea big difference and 30k in prem games that first season was electric

Never heard noise like when mcburnie made it 3-3 against man utd

Already safe ???
I should hope so, we were 6th in the League at the time and playing for a European place

 

[blade too long]

Already safe ???
I should hope so, we were 6th in the League at the time and playing for a European place

Precisely we started the season after with no cushion and no backing