Birmingham to throw serious money at it now

Jedi boro

Jedi boro

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So are they the next side to spend like a drunken sailor and complete defy FFP in the championship to chase the prem then.
 
Just getting in nice and early to say this will end in tears. Nothing about this gives me any confidence BCFC will cease to be, as they famously say in Finland, a "korilaukku"
 
They've got a suspended points deduction right now, so I think they'll be wary of testing the boundaries too much.
 
Rooney loves trying to keep teams up that are already relegated with no pressure on him. Makes him look like a decent manager to some. He'll be hoping for another points deduction I expect.
 
They can't spend a penny until January. So that's 14 more games with the squad they've got now.
I think with the change of manager and a new style of playing, it will set them back in the league, and they will struggle, starting at the Riverside,,
 
I think the Americans have seen the Wrexham documentary and think they can do the same but have tried to jump some steps on the pyramid. Makes more sense as a business, less so as a documentary. If they think that then they don't understand English football. The problem they have is scale, and Wrexham will hit the same problem if they make it as far as the championship. In the National League, and even in L2, there is very little money being spent so the amount of money needed to spend your way out of the division is fairly low. Last season in L1 there was Ipswich, Sunderland, Sheff Wed, Derby and other big clubs with spending power. I don't think Reynolds and co have the cash to outspend those clubs. They are rich but they aren't multi-billionaires with bottomless pockets. They also have to comply with FFP. They will continue to have success until they are in the smae place as other teams with their spending power and then they will only have success the old fashioned way (good recruitment, management and a slice of luck).

The championship is even more difficult. Teams with parachute payments, teams like Leicester and Saints selling players for £50m is just so far beyond what the rest are able to spend that it doesn't matter how rich the owners are. They can't outspend the competition. It's not impossible to get promoted with a smaller budget, just look at Luton for that example, but it is unlikely that a team is going to be able to spend enough to guarantee promotion. In this league that would be £100m+.
 
If they are going to throw money at it I would have thought they would have found a better coach / manager. They should have gone for Lampard🤪
 
I recall that Tom Brady (that NFL chap) had put some money to buy a minority interest in them. Perhaps they are going to try to be all Hollywood too...
 
Muttley said:
I recall that Tom Brady (that NFL chap) had put some money to buy a minority interest in them. Perhaps they are going to try to be all Hollywood too...
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He’s been at the games including on the opening weekend for the NFL that did surprise me.
 
Biggy said:
Or maybe throw money at their crumbling unusable stadium.
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That is right - until they can open half the stadium then FFP is not going to allow them to spend anything at all.
It won't be easy to work out who is responsible for building a new stadium straight on top of a crumbling terrace or who pays the massive bill.
 
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