Swansea vs LFC post match

[Mattshark]

Challenge for 4th probably, not for the league though.

Challenge 4th easily. No one thought we were going to go for the title.

[BootRoom]

City have already spent a significant amount and have a much better squad, so we're playing catch up. They've got CL football and have just won the PL.

How do the FFP rules make it harder for us? City have still got a huge wage bill and whatever they make in the CL (along with other revenue) has still got to cover future operating costs and transfers - players don't last forever, you know. And whatever that revenue is, it will be less than if the Sheiks still had carte blanche to throw in a hundred million here and there.

From day one FSG have maintained that they will only spend what the Club generates, so the FFP rules can only close the gap between us and those Clubs that are funded in large part by benefactors.

[Havors]

Bang on, Any top manager coming in to any club should have a knowledge of the market and his favourites. We just looked at the assists table and bought off that

Talking of assists... and this moneyball statistics thing...

Lukaku has more assists this season than Downing.... and he has played less than 90mins all season... Moneyball my arse! Doesnt work in "soccer".

[Fredo]

Challenge 4th easily. No one thought we were going to go for the title.

Funny thing is that we were challenging for 4th until our league cup win. So, plenty of assumptions are allowed.

We should get our priorities right. Stick our reserve team for the league cup and prioritise the league. We haven't done that but there's the argument that we should play for trophies, so in that respect we've not done too bad (bar our poor FA cup final showing).

I want to forget this season.

[Mattshark]

Talking of assists... and this moneyball statistics thing...

Lukaku has more assists this season than Downing.... and he has played less than 90mins all season... Moneyball my arse! Doesnt work in "soccer".

We didn't use moneyball at all, not unless it was done by someone who failed GCSE maths.

[Mattshark]

Funny thing is that we were challenging for 4th until our league cup win. So, plenty of assumptions are allowed.

We should get our priorities right. Stick our reserve team for the league cup and prioritise the league. We haven't done that but there's the argument that we should play for trophies, so in that respect we've not done too bad (bar our poor FA cup final showing).

I want to forget this season.

We won 4 games since new year, that is over a month before the Carling Cup final.

[Kenneth]

Talking of assists... and this moneyball statistics thing...

Lukaku has more assists this season than Downing.... and he has played less than 90mins all season... Moneyball my arse! Doesnt work in "soccer".

[Havors]

How do the FFP rules make it harder for us? City have still got a huge wage bill and whatever they make in the CL (along with other revenue) has still got to cover future operating costs and transfers - players don't last forever, you know. And whatever that revenue is, it will be less than if the Sheiks still had carte blanche to throw in a hundred million here and there.

From day one FSG have maintained that they will only spend what the Club generates, so the FFP rules can only close the gap between us and those Clubs that are funded in large part by benefactors.

FFP means absolutely jack ****. Its a complete waste of time. All a sugar daddy has to do is build a training ground or stadium and sponsor it with a company he owns or is connected to for exactly what he wants to spend on players and wages and bang! all sorted.

[Nicey]

fitting way to end the season to remind us all how much work needs to be done over the summer, I hope we get straight to it, come day one of the window

[Shaggy]

Something a little off topic to cheer you up

[BootRoom]

FFP means absolutely jack ****. Its a complete waste of time. All a sugar daddy has to do is build a training ground or stadium and sponsor it with a company he owns or is connected to for exactly what he wants to spend on players and wages and bang! all sorted.

I think that it won't be implemented in the spirit it was intended and there will be some 'workarounds' but I was agruing from the point of view that it was implemented fairly, and there is no doubt in my mind that if it was implemented fairly it would be nothing but a help to us in closing the gap to the benefactor-supported teams.

[red g]

We won 4 games since new year, that is over a month before the Carling Cup final.

We were 6points off fourth place when we qualified for the C/Cup final.

We were 4 points off fourth place going into the C/Cup final

[red g]

We averaged 1.5 points a game until the C/cup final

We Averaged 1 point a game after the C/ Cup final

[red g]

That proves.........

we were **** before the Cup final and Really **** after

[baitman]

FFP means absolutely jack ****. Its a complete waste of time. All a sugar daddy has to do is build a training ground or stadium and sponsor it with a company he owns or is connected to for exactly what he wants to spend on players and wages and bang! all sorted.

yeh, they can offset the investment in yoof and infrastructure. city are buying up all the area surrounding the council house/eastlands/ethiad and will turn it into a state of the art training facility.

this win of city's will be the start of a dynasty. it might take another year or two for them to add a little more balls to the team, but apart from the odd blip i think most other teams will be playing for places. they will then cream all the kids [arsene?] from around the world and put them to work at the new city academy, so they wont need to spend massively on bringing in players, other than the odd marquee signing...