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Unless they bounce straight back up, relegated clubs are given a season pass from FFP....might be wrong on that but I rarely am

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12 minutes ago, Daveo said:

Unless they bounce straight back up, relegated clubs are given a season pass from FFP....might be wrong on that but I rarely am

I think I read that because they failed it for the last financial year they had to pay a fine already, but didn't QPR get the same punishment and refused due to a loophole? 

Still, Grabban and Afobe have less than 5 goals in the top flight between them. Both have the potential to be good strikers, but 18m... Wow

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£18m.... sends a shiver down the spine. I pray we don't spend money like that on players like that. The £10m on Afobe was debatable, you could convince me he's worth that, but £8m on Grabban? Crazy.

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£8mil on Grabban is ridiculous. Norwich have had their pants down. They sold him to Norwich for £3mil two years ago and I wouldn't say he's improved an awful lot in that time...

They used the fee on Callum Wilson who in my opinion is much better than Grabban, so when fit would take his place anyway.

If 5 years ago you told a Bournemouth fan they'd have a front three costing £34 million they'd laugh in your face.

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39 minutes ago, Kernow said:

If 5 years ago you told a Bournemouth fan they'd have a front three costing £34 million they'd laugh in your face.

If 5 years ago you told a Bournemouth fan they'd have been in the Prem, they would have probably laughed in your face, bearing mind they had just come up from div 2.

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OK , not that I agree afobe and Grabban are worth £10mil lion and £8 million respectively but if they score the goals they need too keep them up then surely it's worth the gamble to them ? 

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7 hours ago, RiddingsRam said:

OK , not that I agree afobe and Grabban are worth £10mil lion and £8 million respectively but if they score the goals they need too keep them up then surely it's worth the gamble to them ? 

true, but I'd wager they don't get 10 goals between them in the PL.

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49 minutes ago, Shang said:

I think Afobe will surprise a lot of people, from I've seen he's a real player.

Grabban not so much!

I think Afobe is a good Championship player with the right service but can't see him making it in the PL

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19 hours ago, Duracell said:

£18m on Grabban and Afobe is ridiculous. Think how much more player you could get for that money....

Small change after £160 million incoming plus investment from outside. Howe is a very bright boy. Iturbe on loan with £16 million tag for next year? Mings and Wilson plus another injured expensive player. Looking good for Cherries.

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8 million for Grabban is getting absolutely fleeced. Never done it at PL level and barely did it in the Championship last season (12 goals is an alright return but not 8 millions worth).

Still, I reckon Bournemouth will stay up. If they got Grabban for 4/5 million and Afobe for 6/7 I'd be praising them and saying they've turned their chances of staying up around.

Still, imagine if they'd spent even half that money on a decent defender or two...

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I think they are decent signings, they won't go down there are 3 worse teams than them this season and buying them now gives them half a season to get used to the league. Good business by Howe. 

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1 hour ago, Rampage said:

Small change after £160 million incoming plus investment from outside. Howe is a very bright boy. Iturbe on loan with £16 million tag for next year? Mings and Wilson plus another injured expensive player. Looking good for Cherries.

This is what will destroy English football eventually - the "**** it, it's only money" mentality.

Yes, the fee itself isn't that big in the context of TV money, but why does that mean you should just lump any old sum at any player who's not even a proven Premier League player?

This mentality is what caused United to spend 80 million on a player totally unsuited to their team and manager - sure, with CL money, TV money and shirt sales with "Di Maria" on the back, the money wasn't a problem and there was a small chance that a miracle might happen and that he might have turned into a player who could play in slow, possession team overnight.

Or they could have done their homework and spent the money on three or four players who can play LVG's system.

Clubs don't think anymore. They have money and they buy buy buy. He's looked good for half a season - there you go, have 10 million pounds. Ooh, he looked good in that cup tie, here you go, here's 5 million pounds.

This is why English football is getting left behind. It's just an orgy of money. No one builds teams anymore.

Muespach hits the nail on the head - there will be three worse teams than them. And that's the English game at the minute. All that money, and teams aren't spending money on building a side and on winning trophies, they're spending the money on not being crap. So long as they stay up, it doesn't matter how much they spend, because more money will come next year.

Half the league's only ambition is to make sure that there are three worse teams than them, and they're even prepared to sacrifice a Cup run to make it happen.

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2 hours ago, Rampage said:

Small change after £160 million incoming plus investment from outside. Howe is a very bright boy. Iturbe on loan with £16 million tag for next year? Mings and Wilson plus another injured expensive player. Looking good for Cherries.

I've not fully understood the economics of the prem league but if their potential value is the worth of 1 extra season  (say) in the top flight then what's that number? 

I thought the 160m that's touted was the 4 years worth of parachute payments plus 1 year of prem tv money. Is it now the case that the difference between prem and champ is 160m odd per season? 

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