Question(s) of the Day 02/12/2014

[The Fish 10963]

You're a Championship club with a fairly wealthy owner (think Leicester/Nottingham size) who looks likely you'll get an automatic promotion into the Premier League.

 

How would you approach it?

 

Spend £30m on new players to try and bring a bit of class to your "honest, hard working" team?

Keep faith with the lads who brought you up, to keep you up?

Buy a couple here and there but keep your powder dry until January then reassess?

Buy young lads with promise to provide you a good core of a team for years to come?

Plan with relegation in mind, buying players who're improvement on what you've got so they'd guarantee promotion in 2 years time?

 

 

 

and

 

 

 

Are we incredibly unlucky with injuries, or is our squad so threadbare, a few injuries have worn it through?

[Andrew 4857]

Spend to try and stay up but with an eye on being able to keep the squad together if we were to go down and plan to come back up.

We're unlucky but then suspensions aren't unlucky, Colback and Sissokos suspensions are making us look in a lot more trouble than we might otherwise have been for tonights match.

 

all of your first choice back 5 being injured is a problem no club would deal with without suffering.

[David Kelly 1260]

I think I'd go for a mixture of all of those options (with the exclusion of keeping my powder dry until January as you could be desperate by then and any hope of reasonable deals goes out of the window).

I think Burnley are showing (despite their recent improvement) that you can't just plan for relegation and hope to stay up. They've only spent something like £6m and that's been on the squad rather than the first team. Unless you do what we did and go down then come straight back up at a canter, you're not going to have many experienced premier league quality players. You have to add to what's most likely a squad of decent experienced players who've never lit up the premier league before and promising youngsters.

But you have to be realistic and look at how many teams come up and go straight back down even when spending decent money. You have to have in mind that you might well go down and consider whether the players you bring in will go down with you or want to jump ship straight away or leave you with a massive wage bill that you can't afford.

 

I think it's fair to say we're in a pretty unlucky run of injuries at the moment although you do wonder if some of them (I'm thinking SDJ and Aarons) are partially of our own making for rushing players back to early.