Thedelldays

its possible...of course it is. so is me smashing cheryl cole

one thing is fir sure, we won't be getting moses.... how good are wigan now they play 343...?

the top clubs, with advertising etc etc get way over £50m for being in the champions league which, will be far far more than our whole wage budget next season I should imagine

Ruper Lowe claimed he wanted CL football......does not mean it will happen. to achieve CL football...look at the finances quote many times above in this thread

well, they will have to be quick as we want to be self sustaining and all sort of fair play rules are coming

you reckon the owners are going to throw in £200m in the next year or so..?

did you miss the trophy we got last season? we will have a trophy for this season too..

a look into the future on how to get us to part with cash (further down the page...match day experience) http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17977841

so, you think we will get a sheik mansour or a roman abramovich then?

I know..but we would HAVE to have SMS bigger to even think about competing....until I see that, I will remain on planet sane and lot live with the fairies

well, take back my original tune on this heard that a company called Checkatrade were looking at being the sponsor and it would have cost them circa £350k for the season...a 3 year deal with promotion costing £1m+ for any season in the prem...WITH the option of pulling out if we got promoted in season 1 (which we have) checkatrade opted NOT to go for it and instead sponsor the advert breaks on cowboy builder (and local news)

so, to get a stab at CL qualifiers (if we are lucky at the very least) is to whack another 6-8k seast on SMS bring in 8 or so quality players. spend circa £70-90m on wages for the standard of player we want nope, not going to happen in the near future is it I may start to believe when I see SMS at LEAST 38k throw in the need by the chairman to be "self sustaining" and all that jazz

no wonder for the last few years...so many fans of other clubs call us deluded and arrogant

city and chelsea have not really borrowed anything..

agree....but no two clubs are the same. etc etc also, another one for the top 4 luvvies...the season that burnley went down (couple of years ago)..the top 5 clubs...spent well over £100m in wages. throw in spurs to the mix now...that is top 6 clubs......like I said, I should imagine newcastle right now are spending an absolute fortune too it will need a huge investment to "compete" at the top end of the league

why not? the teams from 3rd-6th enter a knock out competition for the premier league...it is cup competition..a separate entity from the league thought you would know that

Evertons £60m on wages was from the year burnley were relgated just read on the 2010/2011 football wages list that they spend circa £70m+ per season on wages.. that is the level we will have to spend for top 6 I dread to think what newcastle are spending on wages this season...an absolute fortune...for the pleasure of europa league football

im not going to go round and round in circles with you...with sms at 32k to have a chance at top 4 it would need to be bigger...simple as that everton spend over £60m a year on wages....lets see if we get anywhere near that...

wages, stadium expansion. player purchases......

in addition to that already..I mean from now....£100m from the family just to catch up with everton, spurs etc

but that is what arsenal do....aim for top 4.. spurs are another example...1 top 4 finish and spend a frightening amount of money doing so

makes you wonder (like with huddersfield last season) how many times over the years previous would 3rd place points total be enough for top 2

well, as said... when I see over £100m pumped into the club I will then believe we may finished 4th once or so

if west ham go up, they will stay up

that is great. I used to watch the sky at night when I was a kid...and watched it last night for the first time in ages and it was sad to see him so old and disabled.