Thats literally nonsense. The claim was that Vincent hot promoted on the cheap. That's patently untrue. Bione is saying it wasn't well pit together but our squad was one of the most expensive in the division.Big Vinny K wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:34 pmIt’s relevant because you have lost all your best players then you are replacing a lot of the squad at the same time.
How do you compare that to a team who have assembled their squad over many years ?
If a team bought player 5 years ago for £5m and he was playing in the championship last year but he’s on a decent salary (like Pukki and Gibson for Norwich for example) then that is part of the cost of assembling their squad.
We were bringing in players for £3m or £4m and paying them low wages…..and it was all money that we brought in from selling players and reducing the wage bill.
The cost of many of the other teams squads have to be looked at over a number of years in both transfer fees and wages. Ours was a much more condensed period for a big bulk of the team for the reasons we all know.
We had more money because we were a fairly well established Ptem team with Prem assets plus parachute payments.